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Am I just a Figment of Someone's Imagination?
Unpredictable + Self-Conscious = Free Choice. Bingo, we have a formula for free-choice figments!
Unpredictable + Self-Conscious = Free Choice. Bingo, we have a formula for free-choice figments!
Parshah
The Blame Game
While no one will argue that man’s psyche is a tabula rasa, the question is: to what extent do we control the choices that we make? Whom can I blame? Where does my choice begin?
While no one will argue that man’s psyche is a tabula rasa, the question is: to what extent do we control the choices that we make? Whom can I blame? Where does my choice begin?
The Signposts Along My Road Towards a Torah-Observant Life
I had always felt like a fraud in a church, quite torn, but didn’t know how to begin to live life as a Jew. So I slogged along, well into middle age, not knowing where to begin.
I had always felt like a fraud in a church, quite torn, but didn’t know how to begin to live life as a Jew. So I slogged along, well into middle age, not knowing where to begin.
Essay
What I Want to Tell My Friend, the Shoplifter
Daniela (not her real name) was an old friend, a very old friend, and it pained me to hear that once again she was in trouble.
Daniela (not her real name) was an old friend, a very old friend, and it pained me to hear that once again she was in trouble.
Story
The Wise Words That Saved a Life
The two bright scholars spent much time conversing, and the young aristocrat particularly enjoyed hearing his friend’s ingenious Torah insights.
The two bright scholars spent much time conversing, and the young aristocrat particularly enjoyed hearing his friend’s ingenious Torah insights.
You should eat and be satisfied, and bless G-d for the good land He has given you
— Deuteronomy 8:10
Print Magazine
The Baal Shem Tov taught:
To live a G‑dly life, to keep all the mitzvahs with awe, with love, and with joy—this is not something distant from you. It is who you truly are.
Because within you is a soul, a G‑d point, a divine living being that cannot allow itself to be torn away from G‑d, that only desires to be alwa...
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