Rabbi Marc D. Angel, PhD, is founder and director of the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals ([...] Rabbi emeritus of Congregation Shearith Israel of New York City, he is author and editor of twenty-nine books, including Maimonides, Spinoza and Us: Toward an Intellectually Vibrant Judaism; Foundations of Sephardic Spirituality: The Inner Life of Jews of the Ottoman Empire (both finalists for the National Jewish Book Award); and Maimonides-Essential Teachings on Jewish Faith and Ethics: The Book of Knowledge and the Thirteen Principles of Faith-Annotated and Explained (all Jewish Lights).

Rabbi Marc D. Angel, PhD, is available to speak on the following topics:

• Maimonides, Spinoza and Us: Confronting Basic Issues of Faith
• The Orthodox and Non-Orthodox Jewish Communities: Can We Learn from Each Other?
• Conversion to Judaism: What the Jewish Community Can Learn from Converts
• Choosing to Be Jewish: The Orthodox Road to Conversion
• Losing the Rat Race, Winning at Life: Ethics for Moderns

Acknowledgments
Preface

1 Faith in Reason, Reason in Faith
2 The Nature of God, the God of Nature
3 Torah from Heaven
4 Divine Providence
5 The Oral Torah and Rabbinic Tradition
6 Religion and Superstition
7 Israel and Humanity
8 Conversion to Judaism
9 Eternal Torah, Changing Times
10 Faith and Reason

Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading