The Calvinist view that man is predestined to be among the elect or the damned has profoundly influenced not only our views of criminals and deviants, ...

Jewish Scriptural interpretation entails a potential therapeutic bridge between the rational-material and the irrational-mystic in the world of psychotherapy

While the term midrash --from the Hebrew darash , searched or interpreted--can refer to both legal and extralegal scriptural exegesis, it most commonly ...

Judaism openly recognizes, as an integral part of human nature, the enigmatic relationship between yetzer , or physical desire, and yetzirah , or spiritual ...