Nearly twenty-four hundred years ago the prophet Zephaniah foresaw that in the end of days God will “turn to the peoples a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of God, to serve Him with one accord” (Zephaniah 3:9). Can we today see any signs of a pathway of devotion that has...

What’s in a name?   Everyone talks about God, but when we use that word, are we all talking about the same thing?   The Noahides aspire to unite all humanity in acceptance of the Seven Universal Laws, of which the first – not to commit blasphemy – includes acknowledging the presence of God,...

Rabbi Nachman’s lesson about the “good points” was the first piece I ever learned from his master work, Likutey Moharan. This was over thirty years ago in the summer 1977, when I was just embarking on my Torah pathway – a 27 year-old secular intellectual working as a BBC radio commentator...

Will the real Israel please stand up © Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum I was in my mid 20’s when back in 1974 I began my slow trek home to my Torah roots. I thought I was alone in no longer feeling satisfied by any of the “truths” and “realities” on which I had been nurtured in...

Nobody human brought me back to the Torah. In retrospect, it was as if I was dragged there despite myself, by a hidden power that somehow succeeded in overcoming my own stubbornness. Estrangement from Torah Not long after my Bar Mitzvah, I rejected the mish-mash Judaism with which I was brought up, just...