Redemption

Entering the fourth room: We are living in a new stage of Jewish history - opinion

Few modern terms carry as much weight and controversy as the Hebrew word geula, or “redemption.” Redemption is the terminus of history.

|ByMOSHE TARAGIN
(Illustrative). Hand opens door to allow stream of light to enter.
PEOPLE PLANT trees ahead of the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat on January 31, 2026.

The trees’ hidden hope: A 2026 reflection on Tu Bishvat - opinion

This year, wherever in the world you find yourself as you gaze outside on Tu Bishvat, look not only at the trees themselves, but rather at the hope and promise that lie within.

|ByGAEL GRUNEWALD
The encounter at the burning bush lays the bedrock of monotheism. Illustrative.

Parashat Shemot: Learning God

The divine cannot be reduced to scientific explanation or empirical inquiry. God exists beyond the categories through which human beings normally understand reality.

|ByMOSHE TARAGIN
An aerial view shows the Dome of the Rock in front and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in Jerusalem, April 26, 2023.

Why Jerusalem has the best view in the world - opinion

The view of Jerusalem growing upward and outward, after 2,000 years.

|ByBARBARA SOFER

Why belief in redemption is pivotal - opinion

Throughout our history, we have remained convinced that a better world awaits us.

JULY 23, 2024ByMOSHE TARAGIN
REDEMPTIVE AWARENESS: Mural of the Lubavitcher Rebbe displayed in New York’s Crown Heights neighborhood, home of 770.

Elul: Time to take accountability with your soul - opinion

Elul is the time to take make heshbon nefesh (accounting of the soul); a time for all of us, Adams and Eves, to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps and atone for our sins.

AUGUST 21, 2023ByRACHEL A. ELOVITZ
'The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man’ by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Paul Rubens, circa 1615

Passover 2022: Finding redemption in the face of terror - opinion

The Talmud teaches that Nisan is the month of redemption for everyone just as it was for the Jews in Egypt in Exodus.

APRIL 7, 2022ByKENNETH BRANDER
COMRADES CARRY the body of Border Police officer Yazan Falah, at his funeral in Kisra-Sumei, a day after he was murdered in the Hadera terror attack last month.

Tisha Be'av: Finding ourselves to find redemption - opinion

The service on Tisha Be’av focuses on golah, exile, and its movement towards geulah, redemption. The difference between these two Hebrew words is one letter, aleph, for ani – me.

JULY 15, 2021ByKENNETH BRANDER
JEWISH WORSHIPERS pray at the Western Wall on Tisha Be’av 2020.

Redemption song

Shifra Hendrie’s Global Geula Summit brings leaders from across the spectrum of the Jewish world to discuss nothing less than ‘geula.’

JULY 17, 2019ByARIEL DOMINIQUE HENDELMAN
RABBIS AT the International Conference of Chabad Emissaries, in Brooklyn, in 2016.

Galut or geula: Where are we?

We like to fantasize about the “glory days” of King David and King Solomon,an era when the Beit Hamikdash existed and the Levites sung and the sacrifices were offered. But was it all really so grand?

JULY 17, 2019BySTEWART WEISS
‘WAS THERE ever a better Israel than this one?’: Israel Air Force F-161s fly over the beaches of Tel Aviv on a recent Independence Day.