What does it mean to walk in the ways of God?
In order to understand what it means in the Torah (the 5 Books of Moses) and the Hebrew Bible to walk in the ways of God (Deuteronomy 10, 12), we…
In order to understand what it means in the Torah (the 5 Books of Moses) and the Hebrew Bible to walk in the ways of God (Deuteronomy 10, 12), we…
In my book on the Hebrew Bible, Reconciling a Contradictory Abraham, I argue that, in spite of the enormous influence of the Hebrew Bible upon western culture, the Hebrew Bible…
There are many contradictions within the Torah (the 5 Books of Moses), the Hebrew Bible and the Talmudic literature. In the continuation, I will give only one example of…
in the Book of Exodus, it is written that God says (Exodus 17, 14) - “I will utterly wipe out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven”. In the Book…
I am writing here in response to an article “The fight with my kippa” in the magazine section of the Jerusalem Post (11/16/ 18) in which Rabbi Nathan Cardozo speaks…
The obvious question in relation to the story of the binding of Isaac arises in comparison with the previous story of Sodom and Gomorrah. In the story of Sodom and…
In my book on the Hebrew Bible “Reconciling a Contradictory Abraham” I argue that, in spite of the enormous influence of the Hebrew Bible upon western culture, the Hebrew Bible…
The Book of Job, in my view, is widely misunderstood - it is the classic book of the Hebrew Bible that seemingly is orthodox (correct belief) and theological in nature…
Judaism is a religion in a very different sense than Christianity. Christianity is a religion in an orthodox (correct belief) sense of a faith commitment - faith in God and…
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…