Oct 19, 2023
The Purpose of this Article I am basically writing this piece to make my personal position clear: I am against those who spread violence and death, whoever they are, and whatever religion they might belong to. I support anyone who is innocent in times of war, whether...
Sep 22, 2023
Introduction: The Purpose of Yom ha-Kippurim The majority of this article is taken from the Introduction to the Prayerbook for the Day of Expiations. For a shorter, condensed version of the content in this article, see this blogpost. The whole purpose of the Day of...
Sep 18, 2023
Shalom everyone, There are some religious preachers who will threaten or shame you into following their teachings. I‘m not going to do that. There are some religious teachers who will wow you by proclaiming that they are spiritually evolved beings, who have been...
Sep 15, 2023
General Introduction In the run-up to Shavuot, I put out an article about the very first covenant God gave us, the Universal Covenant. This is the covenant that is instilled within us at the creation of our souls, and gives us the natural but unspoken, unwritten rules...
Sep 12, 2023
General Introduction This is the third in my series of ‘reaction articles’ to the recent set of lectures given on 27-28 May 2023, by Dr Bart Ehrman, on the topic of ‘Jesus & Paul: The Great Divide’ (you can read my very first article in this series by...
Sep 1, 2023
Some forethoughts I remember an episode of Stargate SG1 (‘Avatar’, S8 Ep6), where Teal’c had to re-live the same day over and over again – a day of battle inside the SG1 base, each time correcting all the mistakes that he had made in the previous...