God

Dealing with the God Question

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

What Is The Tetragrammaton?

The unpronounceable four-letter name of God

From Belief to Faith

Can the skeptic embark on a Jewish spiritual journey?

God in Jewish Prayer

The Talmudic rabbis crafted a formula that moves from addressing God to speaking about God. What did they mean to convey through this dual formula?

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.

Where Was God?

The "hidden God" of the Purim story can serve as a model for God's role in the modern world.

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.

What Are the Sefirot?

According to the kabbalists, the attributes of God relate to each other in a scripted way.

The Kabbalistic Conception of God

The medieval mystics made a distinction between the infinite, unknowable God and God's revealed aspects.

God: A Great Personality

The biblical God is a God we can relate to.