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A Manual for the Elimination of Evil and Injustice

Thoughts on Parashat Shoftim. 

Is it possible to eliminate crime completely? How about at least eliminating the worse crime, murder? It probably is possible. Here is a scenario:  We lock all the people in individual prison cells and we construct our societies that way. It would require three social castes: prisoners Continue Reading

An atheist’s guide to prayer

Thoughts on parashat Devarim.

Prayer is the salient expression of religious emotion and of man’s relationship with God. Presumably every religious person has asked themselves this question: how much prayer do I need in my life and does it make my connection to God stronger? There may be many answers to this Continue Reading

Can’t we all just get along?

Thoughts on parashat Mattot-Masei.

Recently I re-watched an American classic “Saving Private Ryan”. The main character of the story, Captain John H. Miller, played by Tom Hanks, (spoiler alert) was killed by a German soldier whose life was spared earlier by captain Miller himself, in an act of benevolence and mercy. Continue Reading

Focus on things within your sphere of influence – not on your feelings regarding things.

Thoughts on Parashat Balak. 

Technological progress and the speed of information exchange in the modern world has many advantages. We have at hand basically whatever we need: we can buy almost anything we want within minutes and have it in our hand the next day, we can order tickets to visit countries we have never been and book hotel rooms, we Continue Reading