Grappling with faith, rationalism, bible criticism, and sacred myths
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 as a monotheist belief system....
If someone doesn’t know of God’s existence or for intellectual reasons doesn’t believe in God, what does God expect from that person? Do they have a mission in this world?...
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 a synopsis to the other...
Overview: Why the Torah seems so strict with the death penalty, sentencing relatively light-offenders. The rabbinic changes to the penalty and the reasons for those changes. Capital punishment in general...
Overview: Why slavery wasn’t and couldn’t be outlawed by the Torah. The treatment of Hebrew and Gentile slaves in the Israelite home. The Torah is regarded as the de-facto code...
Overview: The historical approach to converts and the way they were accepted and why the contemporary conversion process is so long and challenging. A hot topic in Judaism, the concept...
Overview: What is the Jewish approach to non-Jews and the way they are to be treated. Explaining why in a few cases different civil laws apply to Jew and Gentile....
Overview: Time and again in the Torah, God tells the Jewish People that He chose them as His Chosen Nation. Is the concept of choosing one nation over the other...
Overview: A key component of democracy is the basic right to freedom of religion. Does Torah, which is claimed to be the most moral of books, embrace or condone the...
Overview: Deconstructing the non-sensical attributes associated with God, such as God being a nice guy or mean guy in Heaven. The absurdity of judging God by human constructs of morality....
Overview: Addressing the million-dollar question from an atheist perspective, the biblical perspective, the religious perspective, and the no-answer answer. This multifaceted question doesn’t have a one-size-fits-all answer. It depends who...
Overview: Our morals are essentially relative and non-binding, if not for the fact there’s a God Who determines right from wrong. This absolute morality coincides with our subjective understanding of...
Overview: A discussion on the different opinions and archeological evidence for the origins of the Israelite God YHWH, as well as a discussion of how to square it with belief...
Overview: Why multiple names are used to describe the divine throughout Torah, the assumptions of the Documentarians, and various explanations for Ex. 6:3, the revelation of the name YHWH. ...
Overview: Different approaches to philosophically concluding the existence of God, the implications of these approaches and the characteristics of this God. Monotheism and monolatry. The most wanted man ever...
Overview: The question of corporeality, Maimonides’ principle and the diverging school of thought. Biblical and rabbinic texts depicting a corporeal God, and how to square that with the omnipresent God,...
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