We’re living at a time of unprecedented development through the power of the human mind, creativity and innovation offering an enriched quality of life, while accompanied simultaneously by uniquely man made potential disasters, in terms of the environment. From a Jewish point of view, the fact that humankind is able to make a difference to the world we live in, even manipulate its fundamental elements for our benefit, is routed in the notion that man is a partner in creation,[1] and man is made to toil and work.[2] At the same time, man is charged with responsibility to fix the world that is imperfect: everything that was created needs fixing.[3] One of the disasters of our times includes the development of materials that previously… Read More »
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by Rabbi Eli Brackman
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This site was established due to popular demand to make available Rabbi Eli Brackman's essays and lectures on Jewish thought delivered at the Oxford University Chabad Society. Visit: oxfordchabad.org/oxfordjewishthoughtfor full collection according to subjects
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- Midrash in Rashi in the Commentary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on Rashi
- Posing questions in the commentary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on Rashi
- The Lubavitcher Rebbe's commentary on Rashi: open and interactive
- Choosing the Rashi to study in the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s commentary on Rashi
- The genesis of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's commentary on Rashi: Why Rashi?
- Scope of the commentary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on Rashi
- The Yom Kippur Piyyut of unknown origin: "ki anu ame-cha" (For we are Your nation) through Oxford Hebrew manuscript mahzorim'
- A Passover essay: I am He and there is no other
- Jewish amulets at Oxford University’s Pitt Rivers Museum
- History of the Upshernish: a medieval custom?
- Chanukah essay: Lighting one lamp from another on the Chanukah Menorah - Tribute to Rabbi Lord Sacks
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