Basics of Judaism
- Basic Values and Morality
- Chosen People
- G-d and Torah
- Heaven and Hell
- Other Denominations
- Reward and Punishment
- Science and Torah
- Sin and Repentance
- The Messiah
- Who is a Jew?
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Before creation
Before god created heaven and earth what was he doing? Hi, Thank you for your question. You are asking what G-d was doing before creation. This question assumes that there was such a thing as time before creation. It is…
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Matrilineal Descent, Source
Why doesn’t the father determine the religion of the son? The Talmudic and Biblical sources for matrilineal descent is: Mishnah (Kiddushin 3:12), which says that the child of a gentile woman is like her. This is derived from the passage…
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The Reason Things Happen
I have a question that I have been looking answer for for a long time.Does everything bad that happens in our life have a reason? A lot of times people say: oh this happen in my life b/c I must…
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Beyond the grave
Some body told me when a person dies, he face problems in his grave, like fire and other dangerous things if he did bad in his life, and he gets rewards in the grave if he was a good person.…
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Evolution, Dinosaurs
How does one reconcile the ideas of random selection, randomness, and evolutionary biology with G-D? I am having trouble coalescing my scientific and religious understandings. Particularly, why create the dinosaurs to wipe them out and when did modern man become…
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View of Non-Jews
Can you explain how Jews view Christians, especially from the standpoint of an afterlife? Thank you for your time. We believe that the righteous all have a share in the World to Come, regardless of birth. For a non-Jew, the…
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What departed souls know
I would like to know a little bit more about our souls. When we leave this physical world and we go to the nest world, can our souls see what happens in the physical world? Can souls there see the…
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Ethical behavior
I would like some readings/writings about the phrase “derech eretz”– I think of it as “respect” but I would like to pursue this “right road” further. I hope that there have been many comments and understandings of what is the…
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Genesis
Do the Jewish accept Genesis as actual fact or parable? When was Genesis written? It is fact that must, like the entire Torah, be interpreted. We believe that the world was created in six days, but what is the meaning…