Articles by Yanki Tauber

What kind of "free choice" do we have, if we didn't choose to be presented with that choice?

A caricature of neurotic self-absorption, or the most encouraging and optimistic perspective of reality in the history of human awareness?

What did Moses feel ascending Mount Sinai for the third time, on the early morning of the 1st of Elul, 3,308 years ago?

Why are we never content to simply be? Why does our animal self posses willpower, passion and energy beyond anything our spiritual self could ever muster? What purpose does "happiness" serve? Which is greater--awareness or action? struggle or tranquility?

Imagine a person trapped under a collapsed building. There is a small fissure in the rubble--just large enough to allow him to extend his hand to his rescuers. We are that hand

Large, round object. Move it towards the goal. Outmaneuver those big, burly guys trying to stop you. Be quick. Use your feet. Sounds familiar? Sounds like my life

Before baking her toil, talent and thaler into bread for herself and her family, she pinches off a choice bit...

The Torah is a guidebook. A contract. Identity. Vision. A daughter. And a wife...

In this world that G-d made, there are no tourists--just local residents. There are no fans in the bleachers--only players on the field. No audience--just actors

Do we surrender to the anti-truth of arbitrary happenstance, or do we embrace the divine calling of purposeful engagement? The difference looks a lot smaller than it is

The head is obviously a critical piece of machinery. Would it not have been more judicious to put it in a more protected place, perhaps somewhere deep within the body's bulk?

"My design for A New Home for the New Millennium may seem revolutionary," explained the architect, "but only because we have drifted away from the home's initial, primal function..."

Is there really such a thing as "theoretical knowledge," or is it just a theory?

You may be the only guy wearing a red tie in seat 3B, but does that mean that if you'd put on the yellow tie this morning you wouldn't be you?

Walls insulate and isolate. Breached boundaries leave us vulnerable to attack and loss of identity. What, then, is it that we need?

There's nary a shul bench in Mineola or a park bench in Jerusalem that does not bear the inscription "In memory of ...." Is that what it's about -- memorializing the dead? or is there something more significant at play here?

The "child" and the "servant" exist in all relationships: in a marriage, in the family, in the workplace. In our lives as Jews and our relationship with G-d there are also these two prototypes...

G-d testing Abraham by ordering him to sacrifice his own child! And--even worse--Abraham rushing to fulfill the macabre command. Now if that's not the epitome of everything wrong with religion...

Much is made of Abraham's valiant efforts to save the city of Sodom, how he went to battle with G-d on behalf of these very sinful people. But something about the story just doesn't add up...

To be a Jew is to be constantly moving from what you are to what you can be, and from what you have made of yourself to yet a deeper truth of what you are