Mordecai Menahem Kaplan (1881-1983) was the founder of the Reconstructionist movement in American Judaism. He had been my grandfather’s teacher at the Jewish Theological Seminary and later went on to become his colleague in the Rabbinical Assembly, in fact succeeding Max Drob as President of that body in 1928. I had the good fortune to […]
Read MoreDavid Birnbaum’s God and Evil (Ktav, 1989) is a bold and highly original synthesis which attempts to provide an overarching metaphysical solution to the vexing problem of radical evil in a world created and sustained by an all powerful, all knowing, benevolent God. Birnbaum’s treatment of the highly intimidating and emotionally wrenching problem of a Jewish […]
Read MoreSanford L. Drob Fielding Graduate University, C.G. Jung Institute, New York, USA Sanford L. Drob (2023) Are you praying to a videogame God? Some theological and philosophical implications of the simulation hypotheseis. International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, 84:1, 77-91, DOI: 10.1080/21692327.2023.2182822 ABSTRACT The hypothesis that we may be living in a digital simulation is […]
Read MoreThe idea that we may be living in a computer simulation provides insight into the Kabbalist’s understanding of Ein-sof and their idea that the world is grounded in ethics and value. The Mirror Cosmos: Simulation and Idealism An interesting implication of the idea that we may be living in a simulation is that it results […]
Read MoreRecently, at a lecture in Brooklyn, I was asked to clarify my views on Kabbalah, dogmatism and the problem of evil. I am happy to do so here in some detail as my views on these topics are fundamental to my thinking about God, atheism, and intellectual freedom. I have considered the problem of evil from a Lurianic perspective […]
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