In an important study “Male Homosexual Intercourse Is Prohibited – In One Part of the Torah,” (TheTorah, 2017), David Frankel shows that whereas the Priestly Torah almost certainly means to outlaw homosexual intercourse (Lev 18:22 and 20:13), the other Torah law collections – namely Exo...
Does Judaism believe that people have free will? What does “free will” really mean, according to Judaism? Where does the Torah mention free will? The Jewish G-d: What’s He Like? G-d: Judge or Teacher? My response to a letter I received which said: “The traditional Jewish G-d ...
The Covenant Setting - This is what Moses said to all of Israel in the Transjordanian wilderness, the arid rift valley opposite Suph, between Paran
Then I read Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz’s excellent bookJonah: A Social Justice Commentary.Rabbi Yanklowitz acknowledges the abrupt ending of the book of Jonah and suggests that, “We might write a fifth chapter entertaining the possibilities: does Jonah die, repent, return to Israel, or move...
So too, I would argue, when it comes to the Torah and mitzvah observance, for many of us, this is the case as well. This model of religious attachment can be termed “relationship religiosity.”[9] Does This Make Sense? Some may push back against the notion that it is possible to ...
At the front of the line down a long wide welcome corridor in the Ben Gurion airport is an oversized replica of a Torah scroll. Jewish travelers returning to their home country would reach and touch this symbol like Jews might do on themezuzahas they arrived at the doorway of their own ...
so Universalism contends for the equality of all before God’s love. It does not assert that all are equally good, or will be equally happy: but it contends that no child of God is ever orphaned; that he never loses, or can lose, his Father; that the mere fact of death makes no...
divrei Torah– words of Torah, which is basically things in Jewish magazines, handouts or newspapers that contain thoughts on the weekly Torah portion, or anything on the written or oral tradition. Also applies to discussions at the Shabbos (or weekday) table about Torah concepts. We love divr...
The Torah dictates that husband and wife are to be one "flesh" (Genesis 2:24), and while the act of eating certainly unifies the eater with her food, the act of copulation does not make husband and wife a Siamese twin. Instead, husband and wife are to form a conjoined conscious mind...
Question 1. Why does the woman say she can be so energetic? 答案:Oh, well, I just love what I do. Question 2. What has the woman been engaged in? 答案:The education of science and the further understanding of science. Question 3. What does the woman say about the benefit teaching ...