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June 23, 2014
Observations from the Threshold 4
[I am in Praha/Prague (Praha means “threshold” in Czech) in the Czech Republic. The next...
June 23, 2014
Observations from the Threshold 3
[I am in Praha/Prague (Praha means “threshold” in Czech) in the Czech Republic. The next...
June 23, 2014
Observations from the Threshold 3
[I am in Praha/Prague (Praha means “threshold” in Czech) in the Czech Republic. The next...
June 22, 2014
Observations from the Threshold 2
[I am in Praha/Prague (Praha means “threshold” in Czech) in the Czech Republic. The next...
June 22, 2014
Observations from the Threshold 1
[I am in Praha/Prague (Praha means “threshold” in Czech) in the Czech Republic. The next...
June 16, 2014
Are the Jews God’s Chosen People?
Dear Rabbi Rami, Is it true that the Jews are God’s Chosen People? What does...
June 16, 2014
Masculine Names of God
Dear Rabbi Rami, I have a very difficult time with explicitly masculine names for God....
June 13, 2014
Tallit and Kippa
Dear Rabbi Rami, What are the meanings of tallit and kippa, and what does it...
June 12, 2014
Judaism, Spirituality, and Gender
If Torah, Shabbat, and Shechinah (the Presence of God) are all feminine, and without them...
June 10, 2014
Tweet This
Two years ago Twitter agreed to comply with Germany’s law prohibiting neo–Nazi propaganda and organizations,...
June 10, 2014
Who Killed Jesus?
Dear Rabbi Rami, As a Christian, I have always wondered why you Jews killed Jesus?...
June 04, 2014
Disillusioned
Dear Rabbi Rami, I’m a sixty–something Reform Jew whose faith is crumbling. I don’t believe...
June 04, 2014
Pulling a Palin
As those of you who have been reading this blog from the beginning know, Judaism...
May 2014
May 29, 2014
4 Arguing for the Sake of Heaven
4 ELU V'ELU and Arguing for the Sake of Heaven Given the open ended nature...
May 28, 2014
3 If We are to have a Future
It is almost cliché to say Judaism is dying. Judaism has been around for over...
May 28, 2014
2 Print is Dead(ening)
Our story was originally oral, and made fresh with each telling. Storytelling is intrinsically anarchic,...
May 26, 2014
1. Turning Torah
Embracing our story means taking it seriously, though not necessarily literally. To quote the third...
May 21, 2014
A Quick Reminder
Let me remind readers of this blog that what you are reading is a very...
May 20, 2014
16 Some Proof Texts
Judaism always reaches into its past even as it forges ahead into its future. We...
May 20, 2014
15 Anokhi
“I am YHVH your Elohim who brought you out of Mitzraym (literally the “Narrow Places,”...
May 14, 2014
14 Ain and Ani
Judaism, perhaps more than any other religion, is a system rooted in language. Word–play is...
May 06, 2014
13 HaMakom: Beyond Figure and Ground
One way to look at the relationship between El and YHVH is that of figure
April 2014
April 30, 2014
12 YHVH
YHVH is the second name of God introduced in Torah. Because we Jews are forbidden...
April 22, 2014
11 Elohim: Not God the Creator but God the Creating
“In the beginning Elohim (God) created sky and earth,” (Genesis 1:1). The beginning as Torah...
April 16, 2014
10 God is Ultimate Reality
My understanding of God mirrors that of the first century rabbi Saul of Tarsus: God...
April 09, 2014
9 God is Dead. Long live God!
We Jews have many Gods. This is because we have many readings of our story....
April 02, 2014
8 But Does God Matter?
Remember, the only God we know is the God of story, whether it be our...
March 2014
March 24, 2014
7 Story Matters
STORY MATTERS If we can say nothing about God that is not a reflection of...
March 12, 2014
6 The God that can be Storied is not the Real God
When talking about God, something I shouldn’t do and yet cannot help doing, we have...
March 06, 2014
5 Our Endangered Species
Today we Jews are dying, and have been for a long time. Our enemies kill...
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