Listen Watch the video and read along Some have said it is the single most important problem in religious philosophy. Religious philosophy deals with a lot of issues: how do you know there’s God? How do you know there’s Torah? ...
Listen The Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Attitude to Work—A Comparative Perspective by Amir Mashiach AbstractThe major aim of the religious person is to obey God’s injunctions and follow His ways. If he or she shall do so, he or she will ...
Listen The writer says: I have composed this work not to teach people what they do not know but to remind them of what they already know and which is very familiar to them… But according to their familiarity and ...
Listen Dedicated to Jewish women who feel anger at the sexist discrimination of Orthodox Judaism, and in special memory of Malke Lee, a Yiddish poet, whose pious father burned all her work because he believed it was against God’s will ...
Listen This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. To the men who starved voluntarily in the hope that their privation might aid millions who ...
Listen AbstractThere is, in principle, a fundamental difference between Nazi racial antisemitism and the traditional anti-Judaism of Christianity. The church’s official view has been that conversion transforms a Jew into a Christian, whereas the Nazi view was that a Jewish ...
Listen 1. Maimonides’ PositionIn his Guide for the Perplexed (3:30, 3:32), Maimonides explains that the Torah’s main objective is to eradicate the viewpoint of paganism. Thus, to truly understand the Torah’s original intent, one must be familiar with the philosophies ...
Listen Mixed Blessing: The Beneficial and Detrimental Effects of Religion on Child Development among Third-Graders by John P. Bartkowski, Xiaohe Xu and Stephen Bartkowski – Excerpts (MDPI) AbstractPrevious research has linked parental religiosity to a number of positive developmental characteristics in ...
Listen AbstractAccording to Islamic religious teachings, some Jews confirmed the authenticity of Muhammad’s prophethood and joined him. Most Jews, however, are condemned for both rejecting the Prophet and failing to live up to their own religious imperatives. Medieval polemics tended ...
Listen The sacrifice of Jesus, so much boasted by the Christian church, is nothing compared to the sacrifice of a mother for her family. It is not to be spoken of in the same light. A mother’s sacrifice is constant: ...
