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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...

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;...

Allen S. Maller

Nov 2, 2026, 12:17 AM

YHVH Energy for improving our own world

Islam has its 99 names of the one and only God. Judaism also has many different names (in the 70’s); but the YHWH: יהוה is not just a name; it is also a description of the one and only...

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...

Allen S. Maller

Oct 24, 2026, 9:03 AM

Ancient Religious Art Pre Prophets

The first fossils recognized as Denisovan were discovered in 2008 in Russia’s Denisova Cave, and DNA results from 2010 indicated that the remains belonged to an “entirely unknown species of ancient human,” according to a blog post by the...

Allen S. Maller

Oct 23, 2026, 5:22 PM

‘Then humans began to invoke yhvh by name’ (Genesis 4:26)

YHVH is not a name. It is an infinite flow of energy, the ongoing capacity to do physical work, and/or to cause ideological change. YHVH started before the big bang and is a fundamental quantitative property that can be...

Oct 21, 2026, 9:53 AM

We Perfected the Pause and Forgot the Melacha

Every Friday afternoon, a remarkable thing happens across the Jewish world. Millions of people stop. We have made an art of it. The urn is filled and the hot plate is plugged in. The lights are on timers, the tissues...

Allen S. Maller

Oct 18, 2026, 12:45 AM

Why Abraham Was God’s Super Friend

The Qur’an points out to us that “Abraham was not a Jew (Yahuudiyyan) nor a Christian (Nasraaniyyan), but rather a Haniifan. Since Prophet Abraham lived before the Torah was revealed to Israel at Mount Sinai, he could not have...

Oct 15, 2026, 2:34 AM

Five Years of Blogging: Parashat Noah, From the Flood to the Work of Repair

This is my fifth-year writing about parashat Noah. I began blogging in 2022, in the midst of COVID, when writing became a form of escape. But with parashat Noah, something changed: I began writing every week, without fail. Each...

Oct 13, 2026, 7:59 AM

Seeing Red: Hubris and the Halakha of Space Flight

Rabbi Nachum Eliezer Rabinovitch, photo: Nadav Efrati / Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nahum_Eliezer_Rabinovitch

Vladimir Menshikov, Boga Nyet! [There is no God!], 1975. State Museum of the History of Religion in Saint Petersburg. Scaled-down, low-resolution image permitted under fair use clause, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%82_1975.jpg

In 1961, as humans reached Space, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of Lubavitch (1902-1994) wrote a private letter in which he declared that Space travel was permitted according to Jewish law. The Lubavitcher Rebbe offered a broad, affirmative framework for...

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