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Toward the Infinite Edge

The universe actually has two infinite edges…

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Testing for Prophets

Reflecting on the Jewish Rules of Prophet Identification

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Celebrating Halloween the Chassidic Way

Why can’t we just celebrate Halloween if it’s secular nowadays?

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Does the Torah Say The World Is An Illusion?

Of Witchcraft, Cucumbers, and Reason

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Why "Light"?

How a Kaballistic Metaphor Rescues G-d from Theology

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The Cruel, the Less Cruel, and the Kind

They say the opposite of cruelty is kindness, and that the opposite of hate is love, but it is rare to find a man of unalloyed cruelty and hatred. A man of pure hatred is like a man without legs, a tragedy, but an exception that proves the rule. Most of us are cruel and […]

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Why Is the Universe So Big?

If the universe is created by G-d with human beings in mind, why is there so much of it?

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Objective Reality Is For Meeting G-d

“Facts don’t care about your feelings,” some Jews say. I do wonder, though. If facts don’t care about your feelings, why is Rosh Hashana called the “day of the beginning of your action”? In many other words: Once upon a time, centuries ago, few would have recognized a real facts/feelings distinction, if “facts” mean shared […]

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If You’re Hungry, Eat Yourself

The truest things cannot be understood, because they themselves understand, and what understands cannot be understood. Take a man or woman. We peel off their star chart or Spotify most-listened tracks of 2017 and we see them for what they are in their complexity, and we tell them, “In this, I think I see you.” […]

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There Is Only One Side

Why is a Nazi evil?

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