Satire
If God Were a Medication, He Wouldn’t Get FDA Approval
A key Aish tactic in proving God’s existence, was emphasizing the unusual.
There is no nation...
Pew Pew
Gedlya Goldfinger holstered his PsalmRay.
Whereas the rest of the Goyishe Velt used neutron chips and...
Ba’al Teshuva, or: “Mental Health Issues”
I have alluded to this before in other scathing posts, but it's becoming more and...
Pimply Kid
“The will of God is so,” explains the The Kiruv Rabbi in the most non-condescending...
Kiruv vs. Orthodoxy: Blue and White Edition
I had more fun making this than I did in a long time. Something about...
I Had a Dream
I was back in Aish Hatorah.
I guess like positivity childhood memories that resurfaced after I'd...
Book Covers
"Never was there as happy a time," the Mishna says, "than Tu B’av. Because on that day all the young ladies would go out to the vineyards to sing and dance, and the dudes would hide in the trees and pick out the one they wanted to marry."
Have you...
I must go now, children. But there is cereal in the pantry and I made a list on the fridge of 613 things I’d like you to keep in mind while I’m gone. I’ll be back in 2,000 years. Feel free to interpret my points as you see fit....
If you believe in God from a philosophical point of view, you shouldn’t need any emotional scaffolding to keep things up.
The absurdity of one-off inspirational stories of any kind should be obvious to even the most casual of contemplators, and yet it forms a huge part of religious culture.
I...
Biography
Philosphy
Embracing Uncertainty
Growing up, in school, we'd be reading the same page 40 times, when the Rabbi would stop...
The Zebra Effect
Some questions I had about Judaism, I got answers that worked, to a point.
There were explanations that...
Shloimie’s Shtark Shiurim
Is your yiras shomayim growing thin? Is your inspiration waining? Are you certain you're doing something wrong...
Fiction
Teiku
What lost objects are your own, and which must you return to their owners?Rabbi Akiva says a stack of four coins.Rabbi Meir says five.Who...
Kiruv
For a long time, I was angry at religion for its own sake.
And don't get me wrong, the thing is full of irrational beliefs and oppressive ideas.
But I'm coming to appreciate over time how, like almost all things, Fundamentalist Religion is really just a tool - a stiff and largely inflexible construct, sort of like a dildo...
Are you in the process of getting brainwashed by an Institute for Jewish Wisdom? Is all that mumbo jumbo getting you down as you try to don a black hat a week after being a regular college kid in California?
This handy dandy glossary will provide an explanation for the most common words you'll probably encounter. Some of them...