Human Being, The

We can sit and gaze at it for hours. What is it about a burning flame that captures our imagination?

The classic case, Ministering Angels vs. Moses, reported in the Talmud has been public knowledge for millennia. Only recently, however, has the complete story come to light. Here is the entire dialogue as reconstructed from some of the declassified ...

The wick would flare and die. The oil is difficult to ignite at all. But when brought together in the lamp, they produce a steady flame. And so it is in the of the "a lamp of G-d" that is our soul

Some folks think of people much as we think of cars on a highway: Each with its own origin and destination, relating to one other only to negotiate lane changes and left-hand turns. But people are not cars

"Look," he tried. The poor angel was almost hysterical. "Our job was software. How were we supposed to know that the hardware was to be made from mud? We pleaded with The Engineer to find a more fitting encasement for such an ultimate being than this ...

After all journeys are consummated, after all quests are realized, there remains one frontier which few have penetrated and fewer still have conquered

How the First Commandment, "I Am the L-rd your G-d", and the Sixth Commandment, 'Do not kill", are one and the same

Yom Kippur is the day that our animal, emotional, intellectual and spiritual selves are linked to form a harmonious one