Slifkin v. Meiselman – Making Sense of the Controversy
This is part 2 in a series on Rav Meiselman’s latest book. For the full book review, see part 1. Road-Map to These Articles In my review of Rav Meiselman’s book, the purpose was...
Torah Observant Jew + Patent Attorney
This is part 2 in a series on Rav Meiselman’s latest book. For the full book review, see part 1. Road-Map to These Articles In my review of Rav Meiselman’s book, the purpose was...
I realize I have a diverse reading audience – this article is really intended for a Jewish audience … if you’re a believing Christian, you probably won’t be interested. It describes the experience of...
Introduction In the article, Folly of Faith, Folly of Reason, one of the things I argued based on Isaac Asimov’s short story, “Reason” was that point of view on topics beyond the dimensions that...
The Claim of the Unbroken Chain One of the claims to the authenticity of the Torah is that there is an unbroken chain – the descendants of those who spent 40 years in the...
Okay, short answer: Because our Maker said so. Shorter answer: I don’t know. We can pretty much answer that for any commandment in the Torah, but that doesn’t really help a woman who is...
In this article, I attempt to make a few points: a) Point of view on topics beyond the dimensions that we can observe is based on emotion; b) People tend to illogically ignore evidence...
Why We Should Marry and Why Marriage is Only for Man and Woman Together What’s the purpose of life? To live longest? Propagate our ideas longest? To live until we die and then ‘whatever’?...
Introduction Really, the title should be “Why don’t Bad Things Always Happen to Bad People?” I thought would try to tackle this subject based on some sources in Judaism. Now, we can answer this...
After asking to a group of atheists, “Assuming with live in a world with free will, what amount of evidence would be enough for you to believe in G_d?” one of them decided to...
The Question To Atheists Atheists fascinate me. In my most secular days, I was an agnostic because even if you are right that there is no Creator, you can’t know that. I recently found...