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Nov 7, 2026, 5:07 PM

Superdeterminism and Destiny – The Physics of Who We Are

What if everything that has ever happened to you was always going to happen? Every decision. Every heartbreak. Every mistake and every win. Every moment of extraordinary courage when you had absolutely no idea where that courage was coming from. What...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Nov 7, 2026, 9:20 AM

One Idea Tafsir No.7 – The Finely Tuned Universe.

The Daily Brew — Short Tafsīr on the Go No. 7 — Six Numbers, One Universe Sūrat al-Qamar (54): Is Anything Really Random? Preamble — A personal note This video on the cosmological constant, Leonard Susskind’s work, Martin Rees’s Just Six Numbers, Newton’s...

Shawn Aron Weiss

Nov 6, 2026, 11:56 PM

Has the light of holiness permeated our national life and all its deeds? Has Israel fulfilled its destiny as a light unto the nations? What is Israel, at this moment, to the world? Here in America, anti-Zionism has achieved the...

Nov 5, 2026, 7:15 PM

The daughter-in-law

Avraham was old. Sarah had died. He too would not live forever, but his mission must. Avraham had a son, Yitzhak, who would follow his path and continue his legacy. However, he was single. Avraham acted, summoning his trusted...

Nov 5, 2026, 1:20 AM

There Is No Such Thing As…

The battle is not over whether the “thing” the word describes exists. The battle is over what the word means. Image © Ivan Bassov, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Why We Should Redefine Words Rather Than Deny Them “There is no such thing as Islamophobia.” “There is no such thing as Palestine.” You hear these statements surprisingly often from pro-Israel advocates. The intention is understandable: to reject concepts that are being...

Alexandre Gilbert

Nov 4, 2026, 10:06 PM

The Digital Condition: Falling, Exposure and the Crisis of the Common World

Gen Z (copyright authorized)

Every generation is first named by its relationship to technology. Xennials, born in the 1980s, might be described as Digital Actives: the first to work online, through networks, while experiencing digital technology as something newly acquired. Millennials became Digital...

Nov 4, 2026, 3:59 AM

How & Why Torah Is Our Greatest Protection. Torah, Free Will, and Science

The advent of modern quantum mechanics, particularly through the Copenhagen interpretation formulated by Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, marks a profound shift in our understanding of physical reality. In quantum mechanics, a physical system—famously illustrated by Erwin Schrödinger’s cat...

Allen S. Maller

Nov 3, 2026, 4:16 PM

Rabbinic Examples of Wise Written Tahrif

As the generations and the centuries pass, some words change their meaning; or add new meanings to the old meanings which are sometimes even lost. So Rabbi Judah said: If one translates a verse literally one is a liar;...

Alexandre Gilbert

Nov 2, 2026, 6:55 PM

Reham Barkachizadeh, Meillassoux and the Crisis of Modernity XIII

Quentin Meillassoux (copyright authorized)

Reham Barkachizadeh translated Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude into Persian as Farākarāngī: jostārī darbāre-ye zarūrat-e emkān (فراکرانگی: جستاری درباره ضرورت امکان), published by Nashr-e Sales; also a Sartre play, listed by Sales as Mahbas, and Introducing Lacan. As an editor...

Nov 1, 2026, 4:30 AM

What Kind of Spirituality Do You Have in Mind?

If you are “spiritual, but not religious,” what kind of spirituality do you have in mind? One possibility comes from Jewish thinker, Martin Buber (1878-1965), and his classic book I and Thou. This is spirituality between people, what Buber...

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