The topic for this week is guilt and Judaism. You may read the title and think to yourself: “what does vanity have to do with guilt?” The answer is “everything.” This realization has changed my whole outlook on life and I have been sitting here staring at a blank screen for a while trying to [...]
Archive for the ‘Payam Refaeilzadeh’ Category
Guilt: Vanity’s Poison
Posted in Payam Refaeilzadeh, Spirituality, tagged chassidus, guilt, Jewish Philosophy, Tanya on April 24, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Asking the right questions
Posted in Payam Refaeilzadeh, Spirituality, Terminology, tagged creation, god, good and evil, judaism, legitimate questions on March 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Is G-d good? My answer would be “of course!” If I was aked to justify my answer, I would have to say: “… because he created me.” Simplistic? yes. But it works for me – it always has.
We are taught that G-d is one, eternal, all-powerful, non-corporeal creative entity, the full comprehension of which is [...]
Just say “thank G-d”
Posted in Contemporary, Payam Refaeilzadeh, tagged 613, G-d, god, jews' mission, know there is God, rambam on March 11, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Growing up in Iran, it was not at all uncommon for the very common daily question: “How are you?” to get the response: “Thank G-d.” The common folk would say it in Farsi (shok-reh Khoda), the more traditional muslims in Arabic (Alham-do-le-lah) and the traditional Jews in Hebrew (Barukh Hashem). Now-a-days living in [...]
