Torah and Society

Subjectivity and Truth

Must the search for truth include God or is religion nothing but convenient emotional therapy?

Fixing What Ain’t Broke

Jewish sin...and Jewish Atonement

Talmud and Modern Morality

Were the rabbis even interested?

Daas Torah

How far does the Torah’s reach extend?

Living Without Shame

Eating disorders through the lens of eternal reward

Torah and Slavery

How can they co-exist?


History

Playing With the Book

Assessing challenges to the Torah’s accuracy

Is the Oral Torah Authoritative?

A second look at the outdated challenge from Academia

Cruelty and the God of the Old Testament

Understanding the Jewish God

Authorship

Bible Criticism Made Simple

Velikovsky

Biblical History, Leprosy and Science

Alphabet Goop

Archeology and the politics of ancient writing

Utopian Visions

Would the world be a better place without Judaism?


Faith

Jewish Prayer

From outside In

Finding Faith

a short and incomplete course for the Jewish searcher

Crossroads

A brief guide for the (spiritually) upwardly-mobile Jew

Observing Shabbos

What’s in it for the Universe?

Preaching to the Choir

how to create and enhance real faith in the already-religious heart

The Big Questions

Divine justice through the eyes of the Torah

The Health Mitzvah

Balancing health concerns with Torah life

A Just God and His Good World

A Torah-based treatment of some of the basic questions of faith

Living With Pain

Strategies for dealing with crises and emotional suffering

Adopting a Mitzvah

Focus and Grow


Woman and Torah

Gender Assumptions and Torah

Is there a place for women in the Jewish world

Women and the Synagogue

Different on principle

Looking In

Responding to an “outsider’s” objective and intelligent perceptions of Orthodox Jewish life.

Looking Her in the Eye

A man’s desire not to see vs. one woman’s need to be seen



Jewish Life

Conversion

Being and Becoming

Analyzing Intermarriage

Closing Doors on Culture

Modern culture and the trip home to Torah


CORRESPONDENCE
essays and thoughts on Torah life

Boruch Clinton

Ottawa Torah Institute
Ottawa, Canada




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Conflicts and commonality. Torah and society. Women and Torah. Halacha and families. Movements and communities. This is the stuff of hundreds of letters and essays I’ve written over the past years. What binds them all together? Each finds its place just at that point where Torah and the modern world intersect.
Here I’ll share some of these thoughts and here I’ll invite you to add your own two cents. Tell me if there’s anything with which you disagree or that you find unconvincing.