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Entries by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach from 01/2008

When Religion Becomes Superstition

| Posted 01.02.2008 | Healthy Living
Read More: Religion, Oprah Winfrey, Faith, Spirituality, Joel Osteen, Benazir Bhutto Assassination, Benazir Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto Assassinated, Benazir Bhutto Killed, Healthy Living News

Religion is no longer about righteousness but success, no longer about G-d but about us, no longer about selflessness but our own material needs.

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Raising Our Sons Differently

| Posted 01.07.2008 | Healthy Living
Read More: How to Raise Children, Parenting, Parenting Tips, How to Raise Boys, Parenting Advice, Healthy Living News

The lie that a man only matters if he is professionally successful and amasses a lot of money and fame begins with the false education of our youth.

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When Men Become Primates

| Posted 01.17.2008 | Healthy Living
Read More: Religion, Atheism, Martin Luther King, Nature of Man, Mother Teresa, Religious Theory, Christopher Hitchens, Healthy Living News

This reduction of modern man to nothing more than his animal urges is what is most destroying him. Men like Christopher Hitchens would have us believe that the material is our truest essence.

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Chabad Messianists: Wrong, But Still Jews

| Posted 01.22.2008 | Healthy Living
Read More: Lubavitcher Rebbe, Chabad Lubavitch, Messiah, Judaism, Messianists, Healthy Living News

The shock of losing a man of such singular distinction led some in Chabad to mistakenly lend him immortality by declaring him to be the long-awaited Messiah.

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