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There is a poignant song titled “Better Than I” (often associated with Joseph: King of Dreams), and within it lies a lyric that has been haunting me lately: “I give up my need to know why.” It is a beautiful sentiment, but it is deeply counter-intuitive to the human experience. We are creatures of logic […]

There is an old saying: “Never discuss religion or politics.” My brother-in-law, however, seems to only discuss both. Worse, he portrays himself as an expert in both fields. Knowing I adhere to Torah Law, he recently asked me if I knew that the Talmud states Jesus is burning in hell in human excrement. I asked […]

I just finished watching the latest installment of Stranger Things, the penultimate episode where everything is supposed to come together. The plot is intense: the groups are converging, the Upside Down is bleeding into reality, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. It ends with the classic 80s trope we’ve come to expect. Dustin Henderson lays […]

I have an additional thought on the Universal Common Ancestor. A recent article in Popular Mechanics highlights a staggering scientific milestone: the clearer-than-ever identification of LUCA—the Last Universal Common Ancestor. According to a new study from the University of Bristol, this single-celled organism lived roughly 4.2 billion years ago, just a few hundred million years after the Earth formed. […]

In our modern world, relationships are often viewed as transactional. It is a “quid pro quo” arrangement—I scratch your back, you scratch mine. Even when we stand at the altar, the traditional vows we recite often carry an implicit assumption of reciprocity. “I take thee to be my wedded spouse, to have and to hold […]