R' David Zvi Hoffman on Chumash, translated into Hebrew

http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/tanach/hofman-dvarim/tohen-2.htm

Rabbi had a passion for faith, entire community - linked article

I was just listening to a Marc Shapiro class where he discussed the monumental proclaimation by serveral leading rabbanim in the 1950s against Orthodox groups being members of the Synogogue Council of America, an interdenominational Jewish umbrella organization, as well as other such groups. R' Soloveitchik and R' Eliezer Silver famously did not sign on to the letter, possibly for different reasons. Here is a rabbi who worked with other Jewish denominations - bless him. (Working as an individual with other congregtations was not necessarily addressed in the proclaimation.)

Rabbi had a passion for faith, entire community - linked article, Denver Post

By Virginia Culver Denver Post Staff Writer

"More than 1,200 people gathered Tuesday afternoon to honor Rabbi Daniel Goldberger, one of Denver's most respected and best-known rabbis.

Goldberger, who died Monday at age 83 after years of failing health, was eulogized as a "giant of faith and a great man" by Rabbi Stanley Wagner, a longtime friend."

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REBBE SHLOIME TWERSKI

I don't know R' Twerski, but he was recommended. I like this line:

"At another time, the Rabbi told one of his closest students, who also came to him with a difficult life-decision question: “Listen, my friend. I wish I could tell you what to do, but you have to know that the place of a decision is the loneliest place in the world.”'

http://heichalhanegina.blogspot.com/2006/10/rebbe-shloime-twerski-ztukl-daring.html

Giving prayer a prayer of a chance - Linked Post

Giving prayer a prayer of a chance  - Linked Post, http://blogs.timesofisrael.com

by Aryeh Ben David

Rav Kook writes that one of the signs of the coming of the Messianic Era is that people will begin to hate rabbis. I think we’re getting pretty close.

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Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch Jewish History Lecture by Dr. Henry Abramson

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch Jewish History Lecture by Dr. Henry Abramson

Does it Get Any Easier?

Greg LeMond “It doesn’t get easier, you just get faster.”

Feeling Human

If you make the religion all about pain and punishment, you’ll wind up doing avairyos just to relieve the pressure and feel human, which is actually how you are supposed to feel, just refined human.