Foundations of Belief

God, peoplehood, the soul, and why

Who is a Jew?

Jewish identity has both a Halachic definition and a wider self-understanding. The two do not always coincide.

Judaism is the world’s founding monotheism. The nature of the One God is a question on which the tradition speaks in many voices.

Yes — and the tradition speaks of the afterlife with restraint, multiplicity, and a strong focus on this life as primary.

Jesus does not match the Tanakh’s Messianic criteria and his divinity violates Jewish monotheism. The answer is that simple — and that careful.

Halacha is the Jewish legal system — the way one walks. It is the operating language of observant Jewish life.

Shimon HaTzaddik: “The world stands on three things: Torah, Avodah (service of God), and acts of loving-kindness.”

“Repair of the world.” A term with a deep Kabbalistic origin and a wide contemporary application — both worth knowing.

The Journey of the Soul — Gilgul Neshamot in Jewish Thought

By Meir David Ben Avraham

Three classical answers — the rationalist, the kabbalist, and the Hasidic — and why each is illuminating.

The Jewish discipline of character refinement — old as the Talmud, formalized in the 19th century by Rabbi Yisrael Salanter.

The great 18th-century split that still shapes the contemporary Orthodox world.

The Jewish mystical tradition — the inner Torah, esoteric and beautiful, central since the 13th century.

By Meir David Ben Avraham

By Meir David Ben Avraham

By Meir David Ben Avraham

By Meir David Ben Avraham