Jewish Divine Belief

When the Words of Prayer Ring Hollow

Many Jews find it hard to speak words in prayer that feel untrue. Two Jewish values hint at another way.

Dealing with the God Question

Secular humanistic parents and educators face unique challenges in speaking to kids about God.

Do Jews Believe In Angels?

These supernatural beings appear widely throughout Jewish texts.

Loving and Fearing God

Should Jews feel one emotion over the other--or both equally?

From Belief to Faith

Can the skeptic embark on a Jewish spiritual journey?

The Shiur Komah: Imaging the Divine

A text's physical description of God might actually have been intended to emphasize God's indescribability.

To What is God Similar?

Rabbinic parables explicitly compare God to a variety of human analogues, reflecting the rabbis' subtle, complex, and diverse images of God.

Radical Theology: Confronting the Crises of Modernity

The findings of modern science and the tragedy of the Holocaust led some Jewish thinkers to redefine God.

Monotheism

Scholars debate whether the Israelites recognized only one God or worshipped only one God.

The Feminist Critique of God Language

A survey of Jewish feminist challenges and responses to traditionally male language for God.