Hasidic Judaism, Game Theory, and the Case for an Unpowerful God
It seems like many OTD-ers – actually, Jews in general – look at God as an all-or-nothing proposition: either He is this terrible, fearful, angry guy who’s always threatening you, or He doesn’t exist. But there are other possibilities.
Children laughing, a baby’s muffled cry, the peaceful sounds of a Saturday afternoon, drift through the open window. This is New York – one of the liveliest, most turbulent cities in the world…
“My name is Baila Rothman, I’m from Ohio, I’m sixteen, I’m new here,” I said to each of my roommates when they wandered in to the dorm that night. Deborah Lee had the…
“Shechinala, Shechinala!” God called to the Holy Ghost with a sweet voice, and because he likes her, he said her name twice.
“What now?” came the impatient response.
“It’s been a long time…
His name is Volf. A Chasid in his mid-thirties with a long black beard and wide unkempt payess, a pair of dark eyes set deeply beneath heavy eyebrows, a large forehead with wrinkled lines…
“I totaled my truck last week,” he said. “These two Mexicans and a black guy, they came around that gas station down on 11th,” he said, motioning vaguely behind him, “and turned into…
This was the question a friend put to me not long ago, after a lengthy discussion on the relative merits of homeopathy versus antibiotics and of…
As a child, I was told that God is everywhere. And I would always ask myself, “Is He in the bathroom too?” According to my parents, the bathroom was an impure place, tumeh,…
I had a dream that I spoke to God.
“God,” I said, “I need you to answer me.”
Now talking to God isn’t new for me. I’ve been doing it since I…
Last week He had pinched her butt as He said it. It was supposed to be sort of playful. The mood was light and she said it too. She still wondered if…
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