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June 2014

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

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

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

“I am YHVH your Elohim who brought you out of Mitzraym (literally the “Narrow Places,”...

May 14, 2014

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

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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