On Spiritual growth
Speech at the Macedonia Academy of Arts and Science for the Inauguration of the Holocaust Memorial Museum
On March 8th 2011 in Skopje, the capital of the republic of Macedonia and the birth place of Dr. Adizes, a Holocaust Memorial Museum for the Jewish community of Macedonia was inaugurated. 97 percent of the Jewish community of Macedonia perished in the ovens of Treblinka. They ...
Where is God?
During the Jewish High Holidays I go to the synagogue and I am always taken back by the descriptions of God in the prayer book. He (the Deity is somehow always a “HE”) sits on a high throne bameromim -- which means up there somewhere in space. He sees it all, is all powerful, ...
Where was God During the Holocaust?
Kalmar’s comment on my previous blog, “Where Is God?” shook me up.For those of you who did not read the comments section, he wrote: “My God was cremated during the Holocaust.”He is not alone in feeling that way. Many Holocaust survivors, including my own father, felt that way....
Insight for Christmas
First of all, for those of you who celebrate Christmas, I wish you a merry one. For those who celebrated Chanukah, I pray you had a great one. And for those who practice no religion, a wonderful season’s greeting to you.May we all celebrate surrounded by family, by love and fr...
We need a new “umbrella” religion
by Dr. Ichak AdizesToday, I read that a Jewish Rabbi requested that the Seattle airport authorities add a menorah to their Christmas tree decoration.That is interesting.What would have happened if a Christian religious leader requested the Tel Aviv airport that a Christmas tre...
Video: In Search of My Personal God
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How I Found God?
Delivered at the AMICI Convention, July 26 2013Ladies and Gentlemen. Thank you for inviting me to speak about my beliefs and my search for a personal God.I applaud the courage of the organizing committee to invite a management consultant to speak on a subject so far from his b...
Is There One God? Where Can I find Him?
One often hears people say, “There is only one God; the God of the Christians, Jews, or Muslims is the same God. We should all live in peace, because we all worship the same God.”In my meditation today, I wondered if I agree with this statement.The God of the Muslims orders hi...
God and the Devil, together created us and the world
Some time ago in one of my Insights columns, I dared to suggest that since there are Godlike qualities and devilish impulses in all of us, and since we were made in the image of God, then there must be a complementary team "up there": God and the Devil, who together created us...
Following God
All religions, I think, teach that we are the children of God. So now, imagine if we actually conducted ourselves like God and viewed every other human being as our own child. We would not hurt our children no matter what, right?