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Non-religious Jewish-American philosopher Ayn Rand fulfilled her “Chosen” religious obligations

Jewish-American philosopher Ayn Rand didn’t receive any Jewish education; she never studied with a rabbi and never belonged to a synagogue. Technically, she was not religious. Nevertheless, her creative achievements in making our world a better pace for everybody are spiritually Jewish. How could it be so for a person who proclaimed herself non-religious? AnContinue reading “Non-religious Jewish-American philosopher Ayn Rand fulfilled her “Chosen” religious obligations”

The Difference Between Traditional and Intellectual Interpretations of the Torah

The principle difference between traditional and intellectual interpretations of the Torah consists of the following. The traditional interpretation of the Torah proceeds from the assumption that the Most High created our world unchanging in principle – either nothing changes in our world or something changes in a certain way beforehand. And if that is so,Continue reading “The Difference Between Traditional and Intellectual Interpretations of the Torah”

Spiritual closeness of Jews and Christians and traditional rabbis’ efforts to prevent it

In my papers I’ve made the following points concerning the Judeo-Christian spiritual closeness and collaboration: Very likely what happened on our earth nearly two thousand years ago in fulfillment of God’s covenants is most important, but it all was distorted by history and the religious streams quarreling with each other until it was fully unrecognizable. 

The true Christians are the true friends of Jews, Israel and Torah – and Romney speech in Jerusalem confirms it

I published quite a few papers on the true Christianity that was created by the Jews as realization of their mission of the Chosen people – a mission to bring everybody to the life by Torah. In those papers I called upon the Jews to strengthen Judeo-Christian collaboration in spite of many sins the gentilesContinue reading “The true Christians are the true friends of Jews, Israel and Torah – and Romney speech in Jerusalem confirms it”

Written Torah (Tanakh) is more important for guiding contemporary Jewish life than Oral Torah (Talmud)

That’s an opinion of the new Reform Judaism leadership. They are calling for shifting the Torah studies from Talmud to Tanakh, and they are elevating the rulings of contemporary rabbis to the level of Talmudic rulings – that’s what the paper below by JTA describes. Let’s hope that by paying more attention to the WrittenContinue reading “Written Torah (Tanakh) is more important for guiding contemporary Jewish life than Oral Torah (Talmud)”

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