TTP by Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Misc by Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Ideas by Rabbi Francis Nataf

• Megillath Esther: The Story of Human Importance (TTP-1)
• Yom Kippur: A Day Like Purim (TTP-8)
• The King (TTP-9)
• Idol Worship (TTP-10)
• Human Autonomy and Divine Commandment (TTP-11)
• Rosh Hashana (TTP-12)
• Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur (TTP-13)
• Yom Kippur and Arthur Schopenhauer (TTP-14)
• Human Autonomy and Divine Commandment (TTP-15)
• Introduction to God (TTP-16)
• The Chosen People? (TTP-17)
• Shavuot, Revelation and Learning (TTP-18)
• The Problem of Boredom (TTP-19)
• More on Boredom (TTP-20)
• Educating Towards Enjoyment (TTP-21)
• Religious Stringencies, Good or Bad? (TTP-22)
• Mitzvoth, Minhagim and Their Dangers (TTP-23)
• The Religious Equilibrium of the Menorah (TTP-24)
• Sport and its Problems (TTP-25)
• Freud and Belief in God (TTP-26)
• The Millenium & a Jewish Child (TTP-27)
• Rabbi Yacov Emden, Bilaam & Yeshu (TTP-28)
• Freedom of Will and Determinism (TTP-29)
• The Mystery of Revelation (TTP-30)
• The Number of Generations Before Him (TTP-31)
• Adar Pesach and the Month of Nisan (TTP-32)
• The Quest for Denial (TTP-33)
• Some Perspectives on Mortality (TTP-34)
• Johann Sebastian Bach & Halacha (TTP-35)
• Asterix & Obelix: Rabbinic View (TTP-36)
• The Holiness of Man (TTP-37)
• Thoughts on Dolls & Other Toys (TTP-38)
• The Birth of Amalek (TTP-39)
• Weariness and Gentile Advice (TTP-40)
• Leadership & Rebellion (TTP-41)
• Religious and Secular Morality (TTP-42)
• Tolerance and Personal Conscience (TTP-43)
• Tolerance and Dialogue (TTP-44)
• The Mystery of the Second Day Yom Tov (TTP-45)
• Satisfaction and the Art of Being (TTP-46)
• Dershowitz, Klotz Kashes & Chozrim B'she'ela (TTP-47)
• Shavuoth and Combustibility (TTP-48)
• Kreplach & Bisli: Revelation of Language (TTP-49)
• The Danger of Holiness & Future of Israel (TTP- 50)
• Palestinian's Claim to Israel (TTP-51)
• Prayer, Chazanuth and the Cantor (TTP-52)
• The Holocaust: Divine Retribution? (TTP-53)
• Camp David and the City of David (TTP-54)
• The Ninth of Av (TTP-55)
• There is no Mashiach Without a Song (TTP-56)
• Changes inJewish Education (TTP-57)
• Surround Yourself with Art and Beauty (TTP-58)
• Surround Yourself with Cleanliness (TTP-59)
• Rosh Hashana Teshuva (TTP-60)
• The Dimensions of Prophecy (TTP-61)
• The Dangerous "Day After" Yom Kippur (TTP-62)
• Prayer of the Jewish Soldier (TTP-63)
• On the Israeli-Arab Conflict (TTP-64)
• The Future of the Miraculous State of Israel (TTP-65)
• It is Time to go to Synagogue (TTP-66)
• Finding One's Neshomeh (TTP-67)
• To Merit Israel is to Marry the Land (TTP-68)
• Chanuka, Divine Emanations and The Future of the State of Israel (TTP-69)
• The Blessings of Ephraim and Menashe (TTP-70)
• Joseph: The Tragedy of Being a Tzaddik (TTP-71)
• To Roast or to Boil, That is the Question (TTP-72)
• The Sensitivity of the Torah (TTP-73)
• Megillath Esther: The Story of Human Importance (TTP-74)
• Revelations of a Committed Alcoholic (TTP-75)
• The Courage to Admit a Mistake (TTP-76)
• The Tabernacle and Bach's Compositions (TTP-77)
• The Mystery of the Karpas (TTP-78)
• Sefirath HaOmer – A Day Too Late (TTP-79)
• Lashon Hara About the World (TTP-80)
• Religious Hypocrisy (TTP-81)
• "Es Past Nicht" and Jewish Pride (TTP-82)
• The Destructionist Synagogues (TTP-83)
• An Angel called Chaya Schijveschuurder (TTP-90)
• Why I am proud to be a Jew (TTP-91)
• What will you say to your children? (TTP-92)
• Succoth and the Twin Towers (TTP-93)
• A "Brenn" or "Familiarity breeds contempt" (TTP-94)
• Revolution through one word (TTP-95)
• Efron and Arafat- Two of a kind (TTP-96)
• Educating Cohanim (TTP-97)
• The Successful Failure (TTP-98)
• The Sanctification and Importance of Time (TTP-99)
• Universal love - Is it possible? (TTP-100)
• The Struggle for Faith - Part I (TTP-101)
• The Struggle for Faith - Part II (TTP-102)
• The Struggle for Faith - Part III (TTP-103)
• The Struggle for Faith - Part IV (TTP-104)
• The Struggle for Faith - Part V (TTP-105)
• Killing* (TTP-106)
• A personal letter from Nathan Lopes Cardozo (TTP-107)
• To Be a Matza * (TTP-108)
• A Call to my Brothers in the Diaspora (TTP-109)
• Hating War against the Enemy (TTP-110)
• The Jewish Tradition and the Intifada (1) (TTP-111)
• The Jewish Tradition and the Intifada (Part 2) (TTP-112)
• Shavuoth (TTP-113)
• Moshe and Yitro, Major or Minor in Jurisprudence ? (TTP-114)
• Presentation of "Thoughts to Ponder" (TTP-115)
• The medium of media, a rendezvous with death (TTP-116)
• Tisha be Av and the Parah Aduma in us (TTP-117)
• The Pain of Lacking Pain (TTP-118)
• Reading the Torah and the Curse of Fluency (TTP-119)
• The Faith of the Pained (TTP-120)
• Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur: The celebration of the Human Deed (TTP-121)
• Simchat Torah, The Endless Beginning (TTP-122)
• The Protest of a Bracha (TTP-123)
• The Permanent Preciousness of the Secular Jew (TTP-124)
• Marriage, “Li” and the Need for Martyrdom (TTP-125)
• Rabbinical Courage (TTP-126)
• “Now, write this Song for Yourselves and Teach It" (TTP-127)
• The Jewish Astronaut and My Worries. (TTP-128)
• “Not yet” Jews by choice (TTP-129)
• Ilan Ramon. z.l. (TTP-130)
• Judaism in Crisis (TTP-131)
• World, Sadam (TTP-132)
• Prayers for the Wicked (TTP-133)
• Purim & the War with Iraq (TTP-134)
• The failure of the Religious Parties (TTP-135)
• Pesach, and the Silence of God (TTP-136)
• To Marry, to Buy and the Future of Israel (TTP-137)
• Faith - Frontal Encounter (TTP-138)
• Brit Mila: An Oath of Loyalty(1) (TTP-139)
• Halacha and “trivialities” (TTP-140)
• “After Modern Orthodoxy, Then What? ” (TTP-151)
• The Waters of Strife (TTP-152)
• The State of Jewish Education Today (TTP-153)
• Halachic Limits to Halacha (TTP-154)
• Rabbi Bezalel Rakov z.l. of Gateshead (TTP-155)
• Afterthoughts about Simchat Torah (TTP-156)
• The Halachic Toleration of Heresy (TTP-157)
• Why they Hate us at The Hague (TTP-159)
• Mixing with this World (TTP-160)
• Plato and the Unwritten Haggada (TTP-161)
• There is nobody like our God/ Who is like our God? (TTP-162)
• The Death and the Life of the Word (TTP-163)
• Technology and the Existential Meaning of a Sefer Torah (TTP-164)
• Kal Nidre - We are all Marranos (TTP-165)
• Afterthoughts About Simchat Torah (2) (TTP-166)
• Europe and Anti-Semitism (TTP-167)
• Israel’s Uniqueness and its Future (TTP-168)
• The Crisis and Challenge of Parshanuth (TTP-169)
• Tsunami, Vulnerability, Religious Jewry and the Sanctification of God’s Name (TTP-170)
• A Call to Fast & Pray: Gush Katif & Tsunami (TTP-171)
• Siyum Ha-Shas (TTP-172)
• The Rabbi Slifkin Case (Part 1) - The Hopelessness of a Ban (TTP-173)
• The Rabbi Slifkin Case - Part 2 (TTP-174)
• The Rabbi Slifkin Case – Part 3 (TTP-175)
• Israel is Gush Katif (TTP-176)
• Who is a Gavra Rabba, a Great man? (TTP-177)
• Afterthoughts on Ruth and Conversion (TTP-178)
• The Solution (TTP-179)
• The Day after the Disengagement (TTP-180)
• The Future of the State of Israel (TTP-181)
• God, Gush Katif and New Orleans (TTP-182)
• Leadership and Captainship (TTP-183)
• Jewish Nobel-ness (TTP-184)
• Israel’s Predicament and the Need to be a Stranger (TTP-185)
• The Future of the Torah (TTP-186)
• The Tragedy of Amona (TTP-187)
• The Splitting of the Red Sea and the State of Israel (TTP-188)
• The Future of Israel and the Zionist Enterprise (TTP-189)
• Abraham Lopes Cardozo z.l. - “Ne’im Zemiroth” (TTP-190)
• Rembrandt, the Holocaust and the Quest for Authenticity (TTP-191)
• Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai and A.B.Yehoshua (TTP-192)
• Oh, that I may believe! (TTP-193)
• In Search of the Real Israel (TTP-194)
• Israel and the Nations (TTP-195)
• Rosh Hashana-Ideological Repentance (TTP-196)
• Jealousy on Erev Yom Kippur (TTP-197)
• Preface to Rabbi Francis Nataf’s book(TTP-198)
• The Gay Parade and other Prohibitions (TTP-199)
• Avraham, Old Age and Facelift (TTP-200)
• Some Perspectives on Mortality (TTP-201)
• Sheloshim Reflections (TTP-202)
• My Mother a’h’, Heroism and the Gavra Raba (TTP-203)
• Forsaken by God (TTP-204)
• A Personal Encounter with the Divine (TTP-205)
• Shavuoth, Torah, the Tabernacle and Bach’s Compositions (TTP-206)
• Thoughts to Ponder on Shavuoth (TTP-207)
• Boycott? Come on! Suicide you mean! (TTP-208)
• Is conversion really possible? (TTP-209)
• An open letter to President Shimon Peres (TTP-210)
• Wanted: Rabbis with Knives between their Teeth (TTP-211)
• The Handwriting is on the Wall -Part 1 (TTP-212)
• The Handwriting is on the Wall - Part 2 (TTP-213)
• Yom Kippur - The Art of Spiritual Administration (TTP-214)
• Solving the Conversion Crisis (TTP-215)
• Solving the Conversion Crisis and Global Judaism – Part 2 (TTP-216)
• The Conversion Crisis - Part 3 (TTP-217)
• The Handwriting is on the Wall - Part 3 (TTP-218)
• My Mother Bertha Lopes Cardozo z.l. (TTP-219)
• Sderot and Human Indifference (TTP-220)
• How Holy is Life? (TTP-221)
• Rabbis, Hindus and the Question of Mutual Respect (TTP-222)
• Israel at 3,500+ (TTP-223)
• God and the Earthquake (TTP-224)
• Judaism is About Courage and Risk (TTP-225)
• What is Conversion?(1) (TTP-226)
• The State of Confusion (TTP-227)
• The Prisoner Exchange - Part 1 (TTP-228)
• The Prisoner Exchange-Part 2 (TTP-229)
• The Mortal Danger of Retirement (1) (TTP-230)
• God as an Idol -The Tragedy of the Religious (TTP-231)

• For God's Sake, Whose Land are we Occupying?
• Aggada and Halachah
• On Halacha as the Art of Amazement
• Conflicts of Opinion and Their Philosophical Value
• On Meat and Milk
• Mitzvot
• The Beth Midrash of Avraham Avinu
• Reflections on a War 3
• On Bible Criticism and Its Counterarguments
• Hearing and Seeing
• Pesach: To Roast or to Boil. That is the Question

• The Bulls and Bears of Jewish History (Ideas #1)
• 13% is better than 80% (Ideas #2)
• Light in the Darkness (Ideas #3)
• The Rambam Was Right (Ideas #4)
• Stepping Up to Bat (Ideas #5)
• The Fear to Sing (Ideas #6)
• Notes in the Margin (Ideas #7)
• You Reap What You Sow (Ideas #8)
• Post-Denominationlism? (Ideas #9)
• He Who Laughs Last (Ideas #10)
• The Demise of Marxism and Messianic Times (Ideas #11)
• Stand Up and Cheer (Ideas #12)
• In Defense of Louis Farrakhan (Ideas #13)
• Metaphorically Speaking (Ideas #14)
• I Have Met the Enemy...(Ideas #15)
• Of Bottlecaps & the Golan (Ideas #16)
• Surviving The Holocaust (Ideas #17)
• Missing Opportunities (Ideas #18)
• What's the Fuss? (Ideas #19)
• Have No Fear (Ideas #20)
• Why Can't They Be Like We Were? (Ideas #21)
• Barak and Yehudah's Paradigm (Ideas #22)
• Free Market Judaism (Ideas #23)
• Another Reaction from Jerusalem (Ideas #24)
• An Open Letter to the Hon. Daniel Kurtzer (Ideas #25)
• Giving Esav a Second Chance (Ideas #26)
• On Agendas (A Credo) (Ideas #27)
• What Are We Fighting For? (Ideas #28)
• I'll Take Mark Hatfield (Ideas #29)
• Akeidat Yitzchak & the TradeOff Paradigm (Ideas #30)
• The Problem (Ideas #31)
• Learning from the World of Learning (Ideas #32)
• An Educational Manifesto (Ideas #33)
• Faust, Immorality and Kabbalat Hatorah (Ideas #34)
• Religious Censorship in the Information Age (Ideas #35)
• The Summertime Blues (Ideas #36)
• Of Pride, Paranoia and Peace (Ideas #37)
• Consolation Prizes (Ideas #38)
• Takes One to Know One (Ideas #39)
• Chanukah & the Halachic Enterprise (Ideas #40)
• Reclaiming Jewish Leadership (Ideas #41)
• The Tyranny of Time (Ideas #42)
• The Megilla of Spring (Ideas #43)
• Why We Hate Tachanun (Ideas #44)
• To Each, His Own (Ideas #45)
• It And About It (Ideas #46)
• Menashe's Challenge (Ideas #47)
• Judea Capta – A Eulogy (Ideas #48)
• Herzl, Chutzpah & Heresy (Ideas #49)
• The Importance of Being Alone (Ideas #50)
• Do As I Say, Not As I Do? (Ideas #51)
• Aikido, Yom Kippur and Sukkot (Ideas #52)
• Prove It (Ideas #53)
• Kadeshenu Bemitzvotecha (Ideas #54)
• Yitzchak and the Imperative of Religious Genius (Ideas #55)
• Chanukah, the Winter Solstice and the Jewish State (Ideas #56)
• Woe to the Insult of the Torah* The Need for Parshanut in Our Times (Ideas #57)
• Moshe the Outsider (Ideas #58)
• Contra Avot uBanim (Ideas #59)
• Revelation, Faith and Choice (Ideas #60)
• Higher Fences and Better Cell Phones (Ideas #61)
• Speaking in the Language of Men (Ideas #62)
• The Torah and the Flag - Remembering Ilan Ramon (Ideas #63)
• Of Civil Wars and Jewish Unity (Ideas #64)
• Why John Paul II was Good for the Jews (Ideas #65)
• Rav Shlomo Wolbe - In Memoriam (Ideas #66)
• The Limits of the Spirit (Ideas #67)
• Of Slogans and Substance (Ideas #68)
• The Perspective of Prophecy (Ideas #69)
• Time for a Vacation? (Ideas #70)
• Katrina, The State and I (Ideas #71)
• Of Dress Rehearsals and Rosh Hashanah (Ideas #72)
• Of Children and Immortality (Ideas #73)
• Biblical Litmus Tests (Ideas #74)
• Rosenzweig and Weil are Dead (Ideas #75)
• Of Suffering and Rebellion (Ideas #76)
• Inertia and Introspection (Ideas #77)
• The Task of Adar (Ideas #78)
• Of Wheat and Bread - Reflections for Yom Ha'atzmaut 5766 (Ideas #79)
• Sefirat ha-Omer and Pesach's Missing Eighth Day (Ideas #80)
• Jerusalem and Yerushalayim (Ideas #81)
• Jewish Maginot Lines (Ideas #82)
• Culture Wars and Other Wars (Ideas #83)
• Winning and Losing (Ideas #84)
• The New Year and the Roots of Teshuva (Ideas #85)
• Learning Torah with Our Own Eyes (Ideas #86)
• Focus on Prayer (Ideas #87)
• The Pardonable Sin (Ideas #88)
• Follow the Leader – the Legacy of Nachshon ben Aminadav (Ideas #89)
• Nightvision (Ideas #90)
• The Public and The Private Me (Ideas #91)
• Moshe and the Missing Matriarch (Ideas #92)
• Did you hear the news? (Ideas #93)
• The Journey of the Jewish Nation -Part I (Ideas #94)
• The Journey of the Jewish Nation - Part II (Ideas #95)
• The Journey of the Jewish Nation -Part III (Ideas #96)
• Calling All Souls: The Eloquent Shofar (Ideas #97)
• Torah Simcha on Simchat Torah (Ideas #98)
• Trail Flies and the Human Condition (Ideas #99)
• “Opening of the Eyes:” Tamar and Re-Cognition (Ideas #100)
• The Light in the Mirror (Ideas #101)
• Matzah, Memory and Introspection (Ideas #103)
• Time and Will (Ideas #104)
• The Sound of Silence – Esther and Family (Ideas #105)
• Making Pesach with our Hands (Ideas #106)
• Celebration in the Shadow of Death (Ideas #107)
• How to Compete (Ideas #108)
• Korach and the Elections (Ideas #109)
• All the News That’s Fit to Print (Ideas #110)
• When Does the Fun Start? – Observations for Elul (Ideas #111)
• E Pluribus Pluribus? (Ideas #112)
• Self-Interest, Spirituality and Rosh haShanah (Ideas #113)
• Tearing Down the Walls (Ideas #114)
• A Parable for Our Times (Ideas #115)