A Thought About Thinking
it’s only at a certain point of development that thinking – at least about consequences – really kicks in
Category: Judaism
Imagining the Unimaginable
For most of us the mourning of Tisha B’Av is only partly for our lost Temple. We mourn no less over our lack of access to the emotions aroused by the Temple, for our...
Maharal For Dummies-No-Longer
So many people joined the first of our four-part intro to Maharal last week, that it would be insulting to keep referring to them – even playfully – as Dummies. For those who missed...
Darwin Does Bereishis
Darwin was a Brit, after all, so it would be rather rude of Sir Jonathan Sacks not to comment on his 200th birthday. The Chief Rabbi manages to neatly side-step the thicket of arguments...
Purim Present
In 2003, the first day of Adar brought us an early Purim present. It wasn’t food, but rather food for thought.
Debating G-d: The “Must-Have” Tool
This may not initially read like a book review, but it is just that. Some older books are so important, that they deserve a bit of contemporary context to remind us how important they...
Heretics and Humility
What makes so many so certain that the current scientific orthodoxy is the final word? The answer is hubris, the monkey wrench in many a human machine.
Maharal For Dummies
Not quite. Dummies can’t understand Maharal, and I am notoriously poor at lecturing to intellectually challenged audiences. Still, lot of folks see themselves as dummies when it comes to wading through the works of...
Making the Torah Real
Two students in one of Jerusalem’s high school seminaries came to interview me last week for a documentary about how to internalize one’s Torah studies. I was impressed both the seminary’s sponsorship of such...
Blowing the New Kashrut’s Cover
“Oy,” some progressively clean-shaven clergymen are probably thinking, “Popper’s blown our cover.”
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