There is Truth, and There Are Lies
the humanity that speaks from this Book today, as it has always done, is the unity under one divine direction that divides right from wrong and truth from lies as unconditionally as the words of the Creator divided light from darkness.” The first eleven chapters of Bereshit (the book of Genesis), tell us that […]
The Hanging Threat of Chaos
The creation story in the first chapters of the Torah would be misunderstood if read simply as an intended report of an event that happened at the beginning of time. A half-baked reading of the first chapter of Bereshit—the Book of Genesis, the first book of the Torah—tells that before the first words of […]
The Meaning of Life
The book of Genesis (Bereshit in Hebrew) purports to answer several vital questions regarding Judaism’s understanding of human life and how it should be conducted. One could say that the first words of Bereshit are there to answer the question of what it means to be a human being.
Thirty-five hundred years of experience
The mission of the Jewish people has never been to preserve the world the way it was but to make it more humanly friendly About Us Jewish wisdom consists in knowing what to do with what it knows. This site is about what Judaism knows. Our think tank generates ideas and research on contemporary […]