Philosophy

The six weeks I was hospitalized represented for me a kind of “coma of denial,” in that I had been denying the gravity of my story without even knowing that my story was as grave as it was.

As we live through moments that feel charged with messianic energy, we must not shy away from pondering how these events reflect prophecy and align with God’s unfolding plan.

In philosophy, a leap of faith is the act of believing in or accepting something not on the basis of reason.

Compare consciousness to a radio. You can smash the radio and the music stops, but that doesn’t mean the music came from the radio.

Revelation does not begin with mastery. It begins with mystery.

On a thousand lives and the one that truly matters: Through Torah study, we don’t just read about heroes and villains, saints and sinners; we learn to become the people God envisioned.

It is not the threat of war, antisemitism, or political strife that most endangers the Jewish people, but rather the quiet, creeping erosion of wonder.

How can we explain the relentless horror and violence inflicted upon our people? How is God allowing this to happen – yet again? Are we not promised this land through prophecy?

For too long, many of us have told our children that to be an Israeli soldier is the pinnacle of Jewishness and Zionism. The truth is that it is not, and it never was.