The Jews believe in a messianic era that will bring about a resurrection of the dead and Day of Judgment. This will be followed by Olam Ha Ba -- a better “World to Come.” There are few absolutes in Judaism, and always much discussion and disagreement between rabbinical scholars. Some ...
One of the basic tenets of mindfulness is that the present moment is all there is, that both past and future are problematic fictions. I spent a lot of anxious years taking deep breaths and trying to embrace the present moment, but now that I’m a parent I’m willing to sacrifice a ...
such as the derailment brought by modern liberalism. Yet Christianity’s this-worldly “lack,” which makes Christian society so vulnerable in comparison to the religiously structured society of traditional Judaism and Islam, is also the thing that, by requiring Christian society...
Much of the inclusive thinking of the 2000s must be attributed to the growing popularity of Eastern religion during this time. Western religion and logic dictated that one point of view must be true, absolutely. With scientific advances that are constantly proving old theorems incorrect and disillu...
For example, vegetarianism is a civilisational trait of Bharat – but what does it have to do with religion? Simply because its a desired goal in Vaishnavism? One of the ontological problems in this exercise is that academic elites of the youngest civilization(?) (the US/200 years) are ...
Religious pluralism, and the inter religious dialogue it often requires to work well, is something I worry has become threatened in recent years by extremists, on both sides of the dominant religious issues. I hope that the United States and other countries that try to live in democracy can ...
These two ideologies – Wahhabism in Islam and Zionism in Judaism – may seem like unrelated entities on the surface. But they are not, as I will explore through the course of this article. Both of these malevolent doctrines could be seen as largely responsible for much of the mis...
Israel is a country where I have a natural affinity with the inhabitants [7].‖ How could it be, asks historian Pierre Birnbaum, that Berlin found such ―naturalist, essentialist conception of Judaism, Herder-like to an extreme that almost seems to fall into the category of biological‖ what...
If you bit into an apple and saw that a worm was inside, you wouldn't eat that apple would you? That's what is done in Judaism as well. Fruit that is clean and free of insects is called kosher for this reason. If you eat canned or frozen fruit products though, those have to be...