On Belief in the Jewish God: Shimshonit’s Take
For someone coming from an irreligious background, or someone struggling to slough off a distasteful or fundamentalist belief system, embracing the Jewish God can be a challenge.
Many people’s sense of God’s role in the world is very primitive and simplistic. For some, God is used to fill in for anything we don’t understand in the [...]
Rabbis Explain Why People Become Orthodox
There has been an interesting series posted on the Hirhurim Musings blog about Why People Become Orthodox, and I thought it would be useful to share here simply because the perspectives of many Conservative rabbis are shared. Essentially a question was posed to a number of rabbis across the spectrum of Judaism, and as far [...]
Zoo Torah and Conversations with My Kids about G-d and Science
Hi all,
I’ve been spending lots of time home with my family since the arrival of our new daughter, Nadia (I’ll tell you her Hebrew name after the naming ceremony!), and recently I had a pretty deep discussion with my older two daughters about creation, the Bible, dinosaurs, and how all of that can get really [...]
Audio: The Spiritual Audacity of Abraham Joshua Heschel
Earlier this week a great podcast showed up in my feed reader. It was for a recent episode of NPR’s Speaking of Faith. The episode was all about the one and only, Abraham Joshua Heschel. It’s a mix of live recoding’s of Heschel taken from various lectures he gave, along with an in depth [...]
A Word to Christian Readers
Hi all. In light of recent events surrounding Pope Benedict’s unfortunate decision to reinstate a Latin prayer for the blindness of my People to end, and the World Evangelical Alliance’s full page ad in the New York Times about their intent to proselytize Jews, I thought it would be useful to write an open [...]
