Human Being, The

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?

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

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

Hey, is red bull kosher? I would ask my dad, but if he knew I was staying up later, he would give me an even earlier curfew so I would get more sleep.

Unlike the common misconception that a bar or bat mitzvah signifies an end, or the graduation upon the successful completion of a bar or bat mitzvah lesson regimen, in truth it symbolizes a new beginning...

“But I have nothing to wear,” she says . . . and she has 78 outfits hanging in the wardrobe right in front of her!

Where do we go? What is heaven and hell? Do we ever get sent back for a second life? Is there any way to make contact with a departed loved one?

When did G‑d stop talking to us or interacting with us, and why?

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 ...