Beliefs & Practices

Among each of the movements, admitting gay and lesbian students has been a cause of debate, concern...and learning.

Amending prayers that mention resurrection to accord with modern sensibilities.

By the second century at the latest, belief in resurrection had entered Jewish liturgy and legal writing.

One strand of medieval kabbalah focused on achieving a transformative mystical experience.

The concept of peace is deeply ingrained in the Jewish legal and ethical system.

Responses to Jewish Free Will Problem. Jewish Free Will. Jewish Choice and Determinism. Jewish Ideas and Beliefs.

Yehuda Liebes has revolutionized our understanding of the Zohar and underscored the relationship between kabbalah and Christianity.

Jeff Spitzer mines Maimonides' 8 levels of Tzedakah for guidance on contemporary issues in tzedakah.

In the Torah, faith in God means trust, not belief in particular propositions.

It is more accurate to speak of Jewish philosophies than of a single Jewish philosophy.

Medieval authorities responded to outside pressures and formulated Jewish principles of faith.

Saadiah articulated Jewish creeds, Maimonides followed suit, and a group of 15th-century Spaniards continued the tradition.