Human Being, The

Who would you help? What punishments would you mete out? How would you handle this awesome responsibility?

I find Yom Kippur depressing. Why spend a day focusing on our sins and failures? Do we need to be reminded how far we are from being perfect?

A soul is Divine energy, a little piece of G-d within you. Your inner identity, your raison d'être

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 applied to ...

Is it true that men and women have different obligations under Halachah (Torah law)? Is Torah against gender equality?

Jews have always been called the "chosen people," because that's how we are described in the Bible. But what does it mean to be "chosen"? Chosen for what? How did we get to be chosen? Why did G-d have to choose a people?

In the world we live in, women continue to get the short end of the stick. Whatever women’s emancipation gains on one hand seems to get taken away from the other. Working mothers almost always do more work at home than their working husbands. And when ...

Why do very religious men wear long black garments only, even in summertime? I mean, doesn't it get sort of hot?

Do you have a body? Did you say yes? So now tell me: Who is this "me" that has this body?