Quality and Quantity in the Book of Numbers
Numbers depend on souls which depend on G-d.
Does the Torah Say The World Is An Illusion?
Of Witchcraft, Cucumbers, and Reason
Finding Dark Light in a Digital Cave
The Jewish Case For Not Being Born
Anti-Natalism in the Talmud
One impression that emerges from reading the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s letters on matters of faith is that deep skepticism and profound belief are not opposites, but rather belong together in a healthy soul. You can see this in the way the Rebbe describes the historical giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, taking a Kuzari-like tack […]
Ethical Reason — A Crash Course
A Chassidic Comment on the Michtav M’Eliyahu
How a Kaballistic Metaphor Rescues G-d from Theology
I. Does It Make Sense To Write About Doubt? If I still struggled as I have in the worst nights, I would never arrive at these sentences, nor will those truly doubting care to read them. Doubt garbs herself with midnight veils woven from her own hair beyond which our powers of certainty cannot peer. […]
What’s Wrong With Comedy and How To Fix It
If knowledge is power, then Kaballah is idolatry. There is a reason we were discouraged from studying the holy sefirot, the arrangements of the divine lights, the permutations of the divine speech in their infinitely intricate manifestations. Upon meeting a system, there is an all-too-human tendency to conquer it, to bend it to one’s will, […]