The Book of Deuteronomy is the fifth and final book of the Torah (the Pentateuch), allegedly written by God and delivered to Moses on Mt. Sinai. As such, it is supposed to be sacred and prescribe great truth. The “Song of Moses” (known in Hebrew as the Song of “Ha’azinu” – Hebrew for “listen”) constitutes […]

These are difficult times for the State of Israel. Many of us saw the brutal attack that took place on October 7, 2023, and many of us also see the war that is going on right now in the Gaza Strip. This specific post is not about all that. However, there is a trend now, […]

Anyone with lots of El Al’s experience – especially on the Tel Aviv – New York line – knows this well. The flight is full of ultra-Orthodox religious Jewish (“Haredi”) families, which also means many children and a lot of prayer rituals. All of these are known facts, and nothing said (so far) constitutes any […]

Some interesting conclusions of the mainstream research nowadays: During the period that religions attribute to the Exodus – Egypt ruled Israel. The story of Goliath describes ancient Greek armor. The Hebrew ‘Elohim’ and Jehovah/Yahweh were originally two different gods. Some passages from the Psalms are taken from ancient Phoenician texts. The Book of Isaiah was […]

THIS was published here a while ago. Due to current news it’s being mentioned again.

Does God Exist? You can try to be smart and claim that merely from a logical point of view – one cannot rule out the possibility of the existence of anything not proven to non-exist. Yet there are stories of all those strange beings, such as hundreds of gods, spaghetti monsters, Russell’s teapots, and Invisible […]

This article is translated from Hebrew. It was written originally by Eran in the “Hofesh” website. If you ask a “Western” religious believer when the world was created, you will almost certainly receive an answer that the world was created some 5700-6000 years ago. If you ask who created the world, the answer will be […]

In the nucleus of every cell of every living creature is its “genetic code”. Some of us know it by the mythological name “DNA”, which stands for a very long combination saying more or less “something Nucleic Acid”. Without delving into some sort of a biology lesson: DNA is made up of long, winding chains […]

Israel, Tel Aviv. A few years ago, I took a taxi. The [male] driver did not wear a “Kippah”. There were no religious papers visible around. Not even the common religious stickers you can find on many cars in Israel. The busy Ayalon Highway 20, however, inevitably established the necessary atmosphere for a driver-passenger conversation. […]

There are also some beautiful things in religion. In almost every religion. Although the religious believers think that the religious laws originate from “God”, in practice they were of course phrased by different people at different times and places, and usually with good and rational reasons – similarly to modern laws. “Thou shalt not kill”? […]