This concise book will take you on a journey. A journey of discovery and inquiry that helps address some of the most fundamental and central questions any Jew must ask.

Why did God bother to create anything at all? Why does God command us to do anything at all? Why does He care? If God doesn’t want me to sin, why doesn’t He just remove my temptation to sin? Why would God dictate a specific path to righteousness? Why not let humans use their intellect to reason and discover righteous behavior? Why is there a chosen people at all? If we are God’s Chosen People, why do we suffer far more than any other nation and experience constant hatred by other nations? Does the Torah answer these questions, and if so — where?

By reading this book your understanding of the foundation of creation and the meaning of life will be forever transformed.

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Rabbi Freitag is a very popular, energetic, and inspiring teacher. For two decades, with the Atlanta Scholars Kollel, he honed his teaching skills and compiled extensive materials, sharing it with hundreds of students. This book will intrigue both beginner and knowledgeable readers with its profundity, humor, creativity, and relatability. You will experience Rabbi Freitag’s masterful skill of breaking down deep ideas into digestible thoughts. It is profound in the presentation of foundational ideas, masterful in the sourcing of the ideas from classic Jewish texts, especially Bereishis, enlightening in how it brings out the message, relatable and accessible in its engaging teaching style, which breaks down deep ideas down into digestible thoughts, and it’s funny too!

— Rabbi Dave Silverman, Dean of the Atlanta Scholars Kollel

Rabbi Daniel Freitag has spent close to three decades educating Jews of all backgrounds about Jewish life, ritual, and meaning. He has taught virtually every aspect of Torah and Jewish knowledge including such diverse topics as Jewish mysticism, halachah, philosophy, history, prayer, personal development, Mussar, and much more.

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