Torah Beauty Beyond Belief

Insightful responses to challenging questions Truth is at the core of all that is good. And vice versa: all evil is rooted in falsehood. Hence, our eternal Torah is named Torat Emet, literally, “the Torah of truth.” Anything short of truth constitutes Judaism that is inconsistent with the Torah. While Torah is at the core of all truth, many people are confused about how the Torah’s teachings are relevant in today’s day and age. We often find it difficult to reconcile the seeming clash between God’s eternal Torah and some of modern society’s core values. Torah: Beauty Beyond Belief comes to fill some of the void. In an unassuming yet broadly encompassing way, Rabbi Avraham Jacobovitz addresses some of the difficult areas of Jewish ideas and philosophy, including defining good and evil, why “bad” things happen to “good” people, the enigma of free choice and divine foreknowledge, the Jew/gentile relationship, and the distinction between male and female. This deceptively small book is fil