“It’s now time for the silent prayer,” he began. “You can offer this prayer to God, if the idea of God works for you — or, if ...

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The Messiah is believed to be a righteous king who will be sent by God to unite people all over the world regardless of race, culture or religion. Jews believe that when the Messiah comes he will ...

The Torah contains many laws that guide Jews on how to live a life that pleases God. The Torah contains 613 laws. These are known by Jews as the mitzvot. Jews use the Torah as a guide for living.

After all, he believes that the conventional Jewish tradition does not have the wherewithal to solve the problem of God’s existence and His responsibility for evil in the wake of the Holocaust.

It takes creativity to embrace an invisible God. It takes strength to worship a God who exists, who lives, but who does not ...

When did Judaism as we know it today—devoted to one God and the teachings of the Torah—really take root? How did the religious practices of the earliest Israelites differ from Judaism?

“Gillman’s innovative thinking about how to construe Jewish faith and how to justify it, his use of anthropology as well as philosophy in approaching questions of God and life after ...

In late-night hangouts, Slater would hammer Bethany and his friends about how God could have made an eternal promise to the Jewish people only to then anoint Christians as his chosen people.