Content on Belief
The Gift of Weakness
To pretend that you are strong when you aren’t is to disintegrate yourself.
Maimonides, Prophecy and Science
How did Maimonides see biblical dreams and prophecies, and what does this say about them as parables?
In the Name of the Lord, Your God: The Third Commandment
How can ignorant people avoid pronouncing the forbidden name by mistake if they do not know what it is?
Quantum Physics and Reality
Quantum physics and Jewish mysticism both contemplate the part of the universe we cannot readily see.
Existential Comfort For Nonbelievers
There have been times where I have deeply wished to be convinced, or simply take for granted, that there is more than meets the eye.
The Visual Versus the Verbal
Similar to the Dall-E prompts, we can choose our words, but once ideas are out in the world, the things we see and hear are outside of our control.
Let’s Talk About God: A Conversation with Rabbi Richard Agler
How and when does God come up in our minds?
“The Mysterious” Versus “The Unknown”
For those of us who pray, do we need to know how and why God answers?
The ‘Mystery’ of Believing Without a Causal Story
Why do we sometimes believe things that we don’t fully understand?
Centering the Soul: A Conversation With Dr. Lisa Miller
How do we define spirituality in an age where it means so many things to so many different people? What is keeping us from being our most aware, fullest selves? And how can we pass this knowledge on to our children, in the face of massive uncertainty? Dr. Lisa Miller, professor at Teachers’ College, Columbia University, has investigated these topics with empirical rigor in her New York Times-bestselling book, The Spiritual Child: The New Science on Parenting for Health…
Order Amidst Chaos: How Judaism and Psychology Respond to Trauma
Jewish tradition is about confronting rather than denying negative events, not to be morbid, but as a way to reconcile with one’s past in order to move forward.
Quantum Physics and Faith, Who Knew?
The rules that I believe God wrote to govern the universe are all about probabilities, which means that in theory, or perhaps, better, hypothetically, nothing is impossible, that everything has at least a scintilla of possibility.