Listen The claim in Psalms that the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament proclaims His works (Psalms 19:2) is not a mere metaphor. The study of nature, even with all its intellectual rigor, is filled with spiritual ...
Listen Scriptural law is explicit in making the king subject to all God’s laws, “that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, and to do them” (Deut. ...
Listen You should know therefore that G’d has granted permission to interpret the meaning of the verses by our using our intelligence in order to do research, even if, on occasion, the conclusions we arrive at seem to contradict the ...
Listen Thus hath said the Lord of Hosts, saying : Execute true justice, and show kindness and mercy every man to his brother. And defraud not the widow or the fatherless, the stranger or the poor; and imagine not evil ...
Listen As I grew older, the questions became harder to answer. I recall a particularly revealing exchange with my mother in my teen years. “He was over fifty years old, and he married a six-year-old?” “So? Do you think that you know ...
Listen Even a talmid chacham should not feel embarrassment for earning his living through toiling in some seemingly demeaning profession. This is what the mishna means by “Love your profession, scorn the holding of public office” — the last clause ...
Listen The philosopher Tsang said, ‘I daily examine myself on three points:— whether, in transacting business for others, I may have been not faithful;— whether, in intercourse with friends, I may have been not sincere;— whether I may have not ...
Listen …As for Jesus, he tells the Jews that they are children of the ‘devil’. Harmful ideas about the Jews were thus built into the most holy Christian text; and generations of priests branded the Jews a ‘perfidious’ people who ...
Listen Faith will not waver where reason is its foundation.Faith is not proven by the number of believers. Abraham was alone and he had the truth against a whole generation of pagans.Faith and doubt are brothers under the skin.The “No” ...
Listen The religion of Islam can by no means countenance terrorism. On the contrary, terror (i.e. murder of innocent people) in Islam is a great sin, and Muslims are responsible for preventing these acts and bringing peace and justice to ...
