by Shmuel Parzal | Sep 3, 2026 | Uncategorized
Definitions Before we start, I thought it best to give a couple of definitions, because they can be confusing to anyone not familiar with the terms ‘apologetics’ and ‘apologist’. They are nothing to do with saying sorry; they come from an ancient Greek word meaning...
by Shmuel Parzal | Aug 30, 2026 | Uncategorized
I recently had a conversation with a friend who had had a miscarriage, and she wondered what might have been going on with the soul of her deceased child. I have extracted the important parts from that conversation, and turned it into a readable article. The initial...
by Shmuel Parzal | Aug 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
Shalom everyone, I was recently asked to explain why I disagreed with Bart Ehrman’s opinion that, since the Romans executed Jesus as a messiah, that he must therefore have been executed for political reasons. Ehrman believes that the Romans executed Yeshua...
by Shmuel Parzal | Aug 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
Introduction: The Problem of Psychopaths and Sociopaths There is a difficult question that any religious faith committed to goodness eventually has to confront: What do we do when we encounter a person who appears to have little or no capacity for genuine empathy,...
by Shmuel Parzal | Aug 19, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Conflicting Worldviews Talmidaism uses “Yahwism” normatively to mean the system of ethics, values and beliefs given by YHVH, through holy men and women, prophets and sages, that together produce a monotheistic faith in a holy God, YHVH. Yahwism is the faith and...
