The assumption that there is only one path to true and perfect joy, especially when one makes that claim in the name of God, or any other redemptive scheme be it religious or political, has a rather deadly track record in human history.
The discovery that happens in the space where there is no explicit answer has immense application for the world of organized religion.
Our advantage is that we are geniuses at raising children. Our failure is that we are terrible at raising adults.
A synagogue-without-walls shows people how to create a Jewish life that travels with them wherever they go.
I know nothing more about him, despite how intimately we spent time with his body, but I know that he was and is holy.
Planning a vacation when your parent is dying presents a host of challenges I hadn’t anticipated.
What Brunson and Musk actually represent are two genuinely different theories of how greatness is constituted.
There’s no doubt that our ability to have sustained dialogue, especially constructive arguments, has severely declined.
What would ritual look like for people who, for whatever reason, become estranged from a family member?
Perhaps the rabbis have kept the requirement to take challah (chafrashat challah) so that we would remember that human creative endeavors also have their source in divine good will.