The Enduring Power of the Torah

With overall sentiment toward religion suffering a downward trend over the last 100 years, especially in the last decade -- with the number of religiously unaffiliated Americans jumping from 16% to 26% between 2009 and 2019, and the number of Americans attending either a church, mosque, or synagogue dropping below 50% for the first time in nearly a century -- claiming that a sacred text like the Torah, the Five Books of Moses, can be the most life-altering work ever written might seem laughable to a sizable subset of Americans. But that’s exactly what I’m going to do.