Ask the Rabbis: Do Jews Believe in Miracles?

This is an existential question. Our entire nationhood is predicated on a host of miraculous events that conceived and birthed us as a people, from the splitting of the so-called Red Sea to the invention of gefilte fish. If we don’t believe in miracles, none of those events ever happened and we're a complete fraud. In the 17th century, Frederick the Great asked the poet Christian Gellert: "Herr Professor, give me a proof of the Bible, but briefly, for I have little time." Gellert's response: "Majesty, the Jews." Read Full Article »