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: faith
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…
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…
Does skepticism help or hurt religious Jews?
It’s been a question on my mind for sometime, but I have refrained from writing about it because I am not a philosophically in tune guy, I don’t read philosophy much and when the comments section fills up with A.…
Do you get the High Holiday blues?
I never really liked the high holidays, I love succos, but when it came to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, I would always fall flat on face and wonder how I the ultimate sinner could approach the lord and ask…