Emunah

An essential, in-depth guide to The Thirteen Principles of Faith, based on Rabbinical sources from the Rishonim down to the present day.

The Torah has been transmitted to us with extreme care and precision. The Rambam believed in it and passed it on. The Vilna Gaon believed in it and passed it on. Our grandparents believed in it and passed it on. This is called kabbalas Avos – and it alone is enough to trust and live by our mesorah. Still, substantiating emunah with one’s own thinking (known as emunas ha-seichel) offers huge advantages. It provides excitement — a passion and an enthusiasm that make the emunah alive and vibrant. It helps tailor our Torah lives to our individual minds and souls. It helps make Yiddishkeit real. No magical “leap of faith” is necessary in order to believe. All we need is clear thinking – as demonstrated in this incredible book. In this ‘refresher course’ to emunah, we will rediscover why we believe, and will be able to daven and learn with ever-increasing levels of emunah and connection to Hashem.

My greatest fear? To get to the end of my life only to realize that I blew it. I missed the whole point of life entirely. Assuming, of course, there is one... One day, I realized that I have to come to an informed decision about life’s most fundamental questions: Does G-d Exist? Is there meaning and purpose to life? If yes, what is it? Otherwise, I would be making my greatest fear a reality. This book is about the most fundamental question of all: Does G-d exist? It is the product of well over 20 years of research and slow, methodical analysis. The claims for and against, the rebuttals, and the counterclaims. All of it. If you, like me, are afraid you may be missing the point - then get this book! Take a journey with me to investigate life’s most fundamental question. See if you agree with my assessment of the evidence and my conclusions. Fear no more.

David Dingle Learned Emunah is a story about the faith of a child as he deals with life situations that aren't always his. As Christians we are instructed to teach our children the word of God, but what happens when parents are not believers. In this case David's parents were not always Christians but knew the scriptures; therefore, David was taught the scriptures from a young boy. When knowing the scriptures becomes a reality, a revelation that only God can reveal, David's life begins to change. He is not only taught the scriptures, but how to live by them. As a child this opens a whole new experience in David's life, but his life is not the only one that's transformed. David's father now faces questions that he long forgot about or never thought to ask. Can David's faith be enough to help his father answer those questions?