(If you want the quick answer to this conundrum, please go to the final three paragraphs of this article. If you want an explanation of the answer, please read on) . I’ve asked ChatGPT an unsolvable question again, just to see what answer an impartial...
Shalom everyone, Yesterday at sunset began the day which rabbinic Judaism knows as ‘Simchat Torah‘ (‘Rejoicing of the Torah‘), but which the Torah itself refers to as Yom Shmini ha-Atzéret (Eighth Day of Closed Assembly) – you will soon find out that...
Introduction Quite a few ex-Christian teachers and theologians approach this question starting from the Christian Gospel and working backwards. However, that’s not how I am going to approach it. If we ever want to understand what ‘gospel’ / ‘good news’ means...
For former religious fundamentalists, their greatest sticking point to having a closer relationship with God, is often the Bible itself. I had the same problem, even though I was never a fundamentalist. I had to completely change the way I saw the Bible, because it...
Shalom everyone, Over the years, I have listened to various people who have severe and extreme difficulty in forgiving, because of the nature of what they have suffered and had to endure. I have also taken note of the rabbinic Jewish attitude to forgiveness, along...
