Adam Jacobs
ARTICLES BY: Adam Jacobs
The Spiritual Origins of Jew-Hatred
Without bothering to recount the thousands of years worth of oppression the Jewish People have endured and the endless stream of explanations (and justifications) for...
The Path to Spiritual Self Improvement
The Talmud makes the seemingly outlandish claim that Israel generated 1.2 million prophets over the roughly 900-year period that the two Temples stood. At that...
Why Everything That Happens in Life is Good
There once was a poor villager who scrimped and saved until he could afford a good and reliable horse to help him with his farming....
Making Friends With My Grey Hair
My big sister's hair went grey in her 30s My little brother Eddie also went grey early I was lucky that didn't happen to me My hair was...
Judaism and Revelation
We've all heard the sensible saying that history is written by the victors, but on second reflection it should seem clear that it's not...
The 7 Things Everyone Wants
I recently came across a fascinating (to me) quote by Lady Gaga: "I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper...
Natural Theology’s Revenge
"A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is...
The Secret of Suffering in Judaism
The day my eldest child turned 16 months he began to vomit. It wasn't just your average little kid spit-up either. Rather, it was a...
Intelligent Design in Language
"I cannot doubt that language owes its origin to the imitation and modification, aided by signs and gestures, of various natural sounds, the voices of...
The Moral Excellence of the State of Israel
Tal Ben Shahar's class in positive psychology was one of the most popular in the history of Harvard University. Yet despite his pedagogical...
The Problem With Moral Relativity
In 1877, Felix Adler, the son of a rabbi, started the Ethical Culture Society. One of the main tenets of the society...
A Jewish View on Greg Smith and the Goldman Sachs Affair
I'm sure that by now everyone has heard about ex-Goldman Sachs employee Greg Smith's epic resignation letter as shared with the world through ...
The Secret Life of Hasidic Sexuality
Though I am not entirely sure why, people seem just plain fascinated by the (supposedly) cloistered communities of black clad Jews who briskly...
The Scientific Foreknowledge of the Jewish Sages
There is something tantalizing in the notion that contrary to popular belief, ancient people may have been in possession of a far greater level of...