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I am a rabbi by career who promotes and provides Judaism to Jews of religious and unaffiliated backgrounds. For those who know me, this may...

Overview: Providing 10 pros for adherence to religion, 10 cons of it, and the compromising path to reap the positives and rectify the negatives. A...

Overview: Our decisions do not need 100% certainty to convince us to do them. Comparing the consequences of performing Mitzvos versus not doing them. Why...

Overview: A clear pattern in Jewish history following the biblical theme of the Covenant and its predictions which played out surprisingly accurately against all odds...

Overview: An approach that reconciles both faith and critical scholarship, bridging somewhere in the middle of a divinely-inspired Torah and a man-made Torah.   Torah...

Overview: A summary of what we know about early Israelite history, starting from its conception down to its destruction and rebirth. Discusses genetics, the Exodus...

Overview: Evidence to demonstrate the antiquity of much of Torah yet showing how Moses couldn’t have been the only author of the Torah, as proven...

Overview: Exploring various elements in the dating of Deuteronomy. Showing both sides of the aisle in the research of Deuteronomy’s laws, language, and theology in...

Overview: In this article we discuss various elements of the Hebrew Bible’s text. It’s original script, the rabbinic invention of Safrut, the amendments made to...

Overview: The ancient genre of metaphor and the indications that early Genesis was not intended as literal history. This would reconcile the issues of Evolution...

Overview: Summary of both the evidence for and against an Israelite Exodus and the responses of each side. The element of embellishment in ancient story-telling...

Overview: Challenging the literal interpretation of 600,000 leaving Egypt. Giving scriptural-friendly and archaeological-friendly alternatives to the common notion of the mass exodus from Egypt.  ...

Overview: A general outline of the arguments for and against the historical credibility of Patriarchal Genesis, the responses of each side, by comparing it to...

Overview: Arguments for early authorship, arguments for later authorship, legends based on kernels of truth, legends that served political and ideological agendas, and the several...

Overview: The differences of deity worshipping in the ancient world, the biblical conception of God, the inferior gods in Tanakh, and what makes Judaism unique...

Overview: The ancient concept of law and its oral component, internal gaps in the Written Torah left for the Oral Law, hints to extrabiblical laws...

Overview: There’s a common misconception that turns the rabbis into supermen who can never make a mistake in science or Halacha. This article will bring...

Overview: The dispute between Rashi and Rabeinu Tam regarding the order of the Tefillin. How can there be arguments on commandments from Sinai. Giving a...

Overview: Narrowing down the various ‘yeridas hadoros’ misconceptions to the few possibilities of its true meaning, from a rational and empirical perspective with rabbinic texts...

Overview: A summary of the interaction between the evolving morals of society and the changes to biblical and rabbinic law as a result. Serves as...

Overview: Addressing the issue of parallels between the divinely-inspired Torah and the man-made Ancient Near East documents. Parallels include phraseology, civil laws, and religious rituals...

Overview: The classical argument explained, but then deconstructed with an understanding of myth-formation in the ancient world.   While I do believe there is evidence...