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What Are You Smoking?

What Are You Smoking?

Question of the Week: I read an article by a professor in Israel who suggests that the revelation at Mt Sinai was actually a drug-induced hallucination. I thought it was a ridiculous proposition, but it did get me thinking. How do we know that it was indeed G-d who spoke to Moses and not some mind-altering mushroom? Answer: I read that article too. I am not sure what that professor was smoking when he wrote it. There are ways to test whether a revelation is truly divine or just the product o
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Who Owns Judaism?

Who Owns Judaism?

Why the Desert Was the Most Suitable Space for Torah? The Desert This week's Torah portion, named "Bamidbar," which means "in the desert," is always read preceding the holiday of Shavuos, when we celebrate the giving of the Torah at Sinai, more than 3,300 years ago, in the year 1313 BCE (1). One reason for this is because the Torah was given "bamidbar," in a desert. It was at Mt. Sinai in the Sinai desert where the Hebrews were molded into a nation and given the blueprint for repairing the wo
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz
Every Shavuot is a New Level of Revelation

Every Shavuot is a New Level of Revelation

This past Sunday, exactly 3,330 years ago, G-d addressed our ancestors whom He had brought out of Egypt and told them, in the 'voice of G-d,' the first two of the Ten Commandments. This event, which they all experienced, changed us from a family of tribes into the Jewish nation. Matan Torah, the giving of the Torah, was a magnitude of revelation of G-d that never happened before or since. Here we learned that G-d cares and is involved in what we do. G-d has a plan to make this physical world a
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Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz