Yossi Feintuch: The double meaning of "Anochi"

Selfishness is a major wall between a person and God; when a person goes – especially when s/he would rather not — to a place where there is sadness in order to express sympathy, or when s/he goes to another place where there is joy in order to rejoice with them, one defies selfishness and gain more proximity to the presence of God. 

Yossi Feintuch: The love for God is contingent…

Our weekly Torah portion demands of us to ‘’love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your being and with all your might’’ (Deuteronomy 6:5). When we recall the highly dramatic narrative of the Binding of Isaac, it is quite apparent after a cursory reading of the text (Genesis 22) that Abraham loved his God even more than he loved Isaac…