Q: What is a proper prayer for the anniversary of the death of my friend?
Author: askbneinoahen
Prayer for a Sick Noahide
Q: What prayer can be recited for the health of a Noahide who is sick?
Restrictions on Art for a Noahide
Q: What limitations are there for a Noahide to engage in art?
How Should a Noahide Celebrate Shavuot?
Q: What should a Noahide do to celebrate Shavuot?
Proof for the existence of G_d
Shalom Rabbi,
Some people are of the opinion that there’s no proof for the existence of G-d, but only logical arguments/evidence that point to it. Do you see this as merely semantic problems or are there other issues involved? If there is proof for G-d’s existence, why don’t all people believe in it (I understand proof as “hard” fact which we can produce and point out in the sensible world)? And if there is proof for it, what role does faith/emunah have to play? On the other hand, if there are logical arguments that point to it, why aren’t all logicians (or those who can think logically) unanimous in accepting them? Is this merely due to moral problems (of the logicians) or are there real flaws inherent in such arguments that make them not accepted universally?
Thank you,
Herdian
Joining Christian ceremonies
Q: Can a Noahide participate in church or other Christian ceremonies such as a wedding or a traditional holiday gathering?
Teaching parents
Q: Should a Noahide teach his/her parents/family about Noahidism when the family isn’t interested?
Educating others
Q: Do Noahides have an obligation to bring the presence of G-d and the light of Torah to the world?
Pesach: doing mitzvot
Q: Noahide performance of mitzvot: Pesach and first prayers to be learned.
Faith or evidence?
You responded to my earlier question thus: “The basis of the veracity of Judaism is the historical fact of Revelation, which left its imprint on the collective identity of the Hebrew people. Any of the articles of faith derive from this point and not from speculative thinking.”
Revelation: Historical fact or a statement of faith? I know of no piece of historical evidence to the existence of the Revelation that would qualify as such in any contemporary scientific community – the “imprint on the collective identity” notwithstanding. Many nations and faith communities in the world believe and have believed many things that many of us would question and doubt. If one chooses to believe that the Revelation actually happened, one is, thankfully, free to do so and thus believe in all that follows onward from there. But proposing a fallacious scientific argument endangers the validity of the whole system. What’s wrong with simply accepting that Jews believe in a Historical Revelation and all that follow thereon? Trying to overstate the case with “fact” that cannot be supported as fact to any contemporary standards does Jewish thought, tradition and yes, belief a severe injustice.