I was reading a very interesting post on Fink’s blog about Rabbi Louis Jacobs and his bible criticism that placed him out of mainstream Orthodoxy at the time, one of the comments on that post struck a cord with me:…
Tag: belief
Rabbis who don’t believe in God
A couple of years ago, a blog surfaced that was written anonymously by an Orthodox Rabbi who didn’t believe in God. It was called the Orthoprax Rabbi and created an interesting conundrum, since your job as a Rabbi is intertwined…
Rationalist Judaism makes no sense
I’ve decided that I’m not a fan of rationalist Judaism, most because as much as you try to prove and debate the “facts” supporting a Judaic way of life, it still makes no sense. I’m not really sure how one…
Do you mock other religions for believing in crazy things?
There was a time in which I would bash other religions for making no sense, that was in the days before I realized that Judaism makes no sense. Of course I was born into it and the guilt and mussar…
Off the Derech movement is good for the Jews
It seems as if the frum community has just discovered that those who went off the derech may be a problem for future generations of sheep following the grand master bearded fellows who dictate orders about what you can and…
Do you believe the Torah to be the same given at Sinai?
Ynet has an interesting story about a team of bible detectives at Hebrew University who have been working for 53 years to determine the evolution of the Bible. Lets pretend that the revelation really happened for a second here, I’m…
Moshiach is on the way — seriously!
Every time a big calamity happens in the world or more specifically to the Jewish community, people love to say that Moshiach must be coming soon. Didn’t they here that he/she isn’t coming until 2012 — or was it 6000?…