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G‑d and Us
Hasn't belief in G-d caused as much evil as good? If G-d knows best, what's the point of prayer? How can we have "free choice" if G-d already knows what we're going to do? Do (Normal) Jews believe in prophesy? Are we supposed to be afraid of G-d?
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The Glory of Doing Nothing
By Tzvi Freeman What does G-d want with sinners like me? What did He put such a louse of a creature here for? I just want to know: does He appreciate at all the effort I put into trying not to be what I am?
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Divine Knowledge and Human Choice
The Question that Everyone Asks By Yanki Tauber Three classical approaches to the paradox of divine knowledge and human choice in the light of chassidic philosophy
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Is G-d Punishing Us?
By Tzvi Freeman If you had a child, an only child, who was too much of a wimp to stand up for his rights, would you smack him in the face and watch him fall to the ground?
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What Makes a Jew "Jewish"?
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Sages and mystics explore the primordial "mind" of G-d to ask: Is it the Torah that makes the Jew a Jew, or is it the Jew who makes the Torah a Torah?
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Hasn't Belief in G-d caused as much Evil as Good?
By Tzvi Freeman We have one G-d. So do they. We pray to Him three times a day, they do five. So what was the point of this one G-d idea? So that people could get blown up for eating pizza?
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If G-d Knows Best, What's the Point of Prayer?
By Tzvi Freeman Think of prayer as G-d talking to Himself -- through you
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What is Morality?
By Dr. Yitzchok Block Kant was certainly correct when he said that the essence of a moral judgment is that it is categorical. That, however, is not the end of the problem of understanding the basis of morality. In fact, it is just the beginning of the problem
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Getting Personal With G-d
By Tzvi Freeman A personal G-d? It would be nice to think I could have a personal relationship with G-d, or that I matter in some way to Him. But I'm a rational person.
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Can We Speak Intelligibly About G‑d?
By Yanki Tauber What are "words" but representations of things and concepts that G-d Himself created? Any words we use -- even words like "infinite" and "ultimate abstraction" --are meaningful only in the context of our logic, and as such, utterly meaningless when ...
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