What does it mean to speak of the truth of Judaism?
I want to examine here the question of what we mean by such religious terms as truth and faith or belief. Both the terms faith and truth can be used…
I want to examine here the question of what we mean by such religious terms as truth and faith or belief. Both the terms faith and truth can be used…
Dennis Prager and Rabbi Joseph Telushkin open the first chapter of their book The Nine Questions by claiming that the question of God's existence "is life's most crucial question". In…
On Passover, we celebrate as Jews the exodus from Egypt representing the birth of the Jewish people. According to the Jewish tradition, Passover is the "time of our freedom" -…
Maimonides' great work of philosophy (that he actually presents not as a work of philosophy but commentary), the Guide of the Perplexed, is an esoteric work in which Maimonides declares…
this video is part of a series of videos on jewish holy days dealing with the difference between simchat torah and shavuo https://youtu.be/wF08vaapaC4
Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, who lived in the 20th century, was a leader of modern orthodoxy, a Halachic (legal) scholar and a very profound thinker who pursued secular as well as…
this video is part of a series of videos on jewish holy days dealing with the connection between practices of sukkot and the concept of happiness https://youtu.be/fPX_YKz47yk
this video is part of a series of videos on jewish holy days dealing with yom kippur and the questioning of God's judgment (comparing abraham and job) https://youtu.be/8mBhpMc8U8E
this video is part of a series of videos on jewish holy days dealing with rosh hashanah and historical development of the jewish tradition contradicting orthodox dogma https://youtu.be/rBeAICLteCo
Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, who lived in the 20th century, was a leader of modern orthodoxy, a Halachic (legal) scholar and a very profound thinker who pursued secular as well as…