Rabbi Louis Jacobs

Accounts of intense encounters with God rare in Judaism.

This Hasidic thinker believed man should constantly be aware of God.

Hasidic idea of being attached or cleaving to God.

Scholar in the Musar movement inspired Ponivezh Yeshivah.

This concept is a creation of rabbinic literature.

Neo-Kantianisne philosopher also stressed ethical monotheism.

Both internal and external books have been banned from Judaism throughout history.

While the offense was once punishable by death, Jews do not enforce the rules anymore.

Once a name for sinners who repented, ba'al teshuvah now describes a Jew who returns to Orthodoxy — or becomes Orthodox for the first time.

While Jewish tradition does not make a big deal of birthdays, there is no problem with celebrating them.