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11 editorial From the editors... This chapter collects the Editor's own writings — the Musings drafted as personal exploration, the longer treatise on Gilgul Neshamot, the close studies on Shaatnez and the V'Ahavta, and selected reflections that were originally letters or essays. Each article is reformatted to the Field Guide's standard (classification, tags, blurb, summary, source block) without altering the body text. condensed Oswald

editors-desk-comparative-on-redemption A meditation on the Jewish doctrine of [teshuva](/glossary.xml#letter-T), the Jewish Messianic expectation, and what Christianity inherited and what it altered. /articles/editors-desk-comparative-on-redemption.xml Meir David Ben Avraham deeper true true the-problem-of-the-new-testament A close reading of the New Testament's portrayal of the [Pharisees](/glossary.xml#letter-P) and Scribes—and why that portrayal cannot be reconciled with what is known of the historical [Sanhedrin](/glossary.xml#letter-S). /articles/the-problem-of-the-new-testament.xml Meir David Ben Avraham deeper editors-desk-theology-a-case-for-existence-a-case-for-god The Editor's philosophical argument for existence, for others, and for a higher pattern—written for his children, accessible in the manner of a friendly conversation. /articles/editors-desk-theology-a-case-for-existence-a-case-for-god.xml Meir David Ben Avraham deeper editors-desk-theology-gods-pronoun What pronoun should we use for God? A meditation drawing on [the Ba'al Shem Tov](/glossary.xml#letter-B), [Kabbalah](/glossary.xml#letter-K), and [Martin Buber](/glossary.xml#letter-M). /articles/editors-desk-theology-gods-pronoun.xml Meir David Ben Avraham deeper editors-desk-halacha-shaatnez-wool-and-linen A response to a Christian article on the wool-linen prohibition—clarifying its halachic scope, the major rabbinic readings, and the importance of not casually dismissing ancient Jewish law. /articles/editors-desk-halacha-shaatnez-wool-and-linen.xml Meir David Ben Avraham deeper divine-names On divine names, and the many careful ways Jews decline to write them. /articles/divine-names.xml The Editors deeper moshe-and-noach-one-soul-two-lives The Arizal's teaching that [Moshe Rabbeinu](/glossary.xml#letter-M) was the reincarnation of [Noach](/glossary.xml#letter-N)—and how a leader's failure to pray for his generation was repaired centuries later at the foot of Sinai. /articles/moshe-and-noach-one-soul-two-lives.xml deeper editors-desk-treatise-the-journey-of-the-soul-gilgul-neshamot-in-jewish-thought-prologue The prologue of the Editor's full treatise on [gilgul neshamot](/glossary.xml#letter-G)—the rationalist and mystical traditions of soul-transmigration in Judaism, with detailed engagement of [DovBer Pinson](/glossary.xml#letter-D)'s contemporary synthesis. /articles/editors-desk-treatise-the-journey-of-the-soul-gilgul-neshamot-in-jewish-thought-prologue.xml Meir David Ben Avraham deeper