Unbroken Chain – Direct Link from Sinai through Genealogy
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...
Category: Jewish Belief
Agunah – Why Require a Man to Give a Get for a Jewish Divorce?
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...
Folly of Faith, Folly of Reason – Isaac Asimov & Judaism
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...
Children? Marriage? Why? A Positive Recitation
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’?...
Why Don’t Bad Things Happen to Bad People?
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...
Free Will to Believe in G_d – Atheists Revenge
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...
Free Will to Believe in G_d
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...
Shabbat.com – Find a Place for Shabbos
What is Shabbos (Shabbat)? Torah observant Jews spend 1/7 of their lives disconnected from active manipulation of the physical world. Not only do we avoid all electronic devices, but we also avoid building structures,...
Meaning of Words – My Conversation with an Athiest Scoffer
Character Traits of the Arguing Athiest Recently, I stumbled upon a message group filed with mostly formerly Torah observant Jews. I am a formerly atheist leaning Jew (I called myself agnostic only because I thought you...
Women of the Wall: Part II – Jews for Kant
Historian View of Judaism as Fossil In the past, I wrote about why Torah observant Jews give no credence to groups like ‘Women of the Wall’. This is an addendum to that post, as...