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When God is Trivialized
Let’s be honest: Jews have trouble talking about God. God-sentences do not flow trippingly off Jewish lips.
Cultivating Love
What is love? The word is used in so many ways, and it is so fundamental to Judaism, yet its meaning is so elusive that it is often difficult to know what it actually means to say that you love someone.
Love IS Stronger than Death
Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
Healing “Spiritual Deficiency Syndrome”
It has become abundantly clear that science and technology have given us undreamed-of conveniences-but not happiness. Nothing is guaranteed to bring happiness, yet we relentlessly pursue it. Shall we conclude that happiness is a delusion beyond our reach?
They Call Me Happy. Here's Why.
I am often asked why I use my nickname, Happy, as opposed to my given name, Evan, for most contexts in which I find myself, other than in my professional life.
Encounters of the Angelic Kind
Our Torah study group at Temple Beth Israel in Altoona, Pennsylvania was discussing the parashah Vayeshev in which Joseph wanders in search of his brothers until he comes across a man in a field who tells him where they have moved their flock. Our student rabbi at the time, Nicole Luna, remarked that the rabbis had decided that "the man" was an angel because without him, Joseph might never have found his brothers, been sold into slavery, and, after ascending to power in Egypt, been able to save the fledgling Hebrew nation. Angels, she said, are considered in the Torah to be melakh elohim ,literally messengers of God.
The Search for God
For many of us, the hunt for God never stops. We may deny God, curse God, and demand proof of God's existence that we will never get...but the search continues, motivated by a sense — often just the slimmest instinct — that only God's presence can account for the holiness in our world.
The Jaguar Whisperer
Rabbi Isaac Luria said that every human soul is given a Divine mission to repair some aspect of this broken world. No other person can repair what each of us has been uniquely empowered to do.
Einstein's Religious Awakening
An examination of Einstein's religious upbringing and changes in religious perspectives over the years to understand what Einstein really believed and what he can teach us about faith.
Wilderness Awakening
A conversation with Rabbi Mike Comins, Rabbi Kevin Kleinman, Rabbi Jamie Korngold, and Rabbi Owen Gottlieb. Our biblical ancestors first experienced God in the wilderness. What did they know that we need to rediscover?