To make something better, you have first to know what is GOOD and what is BAD in an object in question, and gaining this knowledge for everything I was encountering in my life had become the spiritual and professional quest of my entire life.
In the spiritual realm, I was searching for the guiding source of our morality and what this source guides us to do. Since I am a Jew who believes in One God for everybody, even for anti-religious people and anti-Semites, I was searching for unifying moral guidance for everybody in Judeo-Christian realm where I live – the unifying guidance that leaves adequate space for spiritual competition and individual freedoms.
In the professional realm, I as a scientist was searching for scientific fundamentals the use of which may enhance GOOD, restrain BAD, and eliminate EVIL.
In the dictatorial Soviet Union where I was born, it was gravely dangerous to question anything beyond the area of your narrow professional responsibilities. This and the state-sponsored anti-Semitism forced my family in 1970s to immigrate to the USA.
In the freedom loving Judeo-Christian America, I hoped to find various Jewish communities treating each other with love and having common goals in building a better world for everybody, but I did not find that.
In the freedom loving Judeo-Christian America, I hoped to find Jews and Christians cooperating with each other in building a better world for everybody, but I did not find that.
In the freedom loving Judeo-Christian America, I hoped to find almost everybody with clear understanding of the utopia of the big government helping the people to be happy, but I did not find that.
Therefore, I had begun questioning and researching on why it is so and what could be done.
· Why in the USA, where an individual can be a truly free one demanding from the government only security for exercising individual freedoms, some demand the full government care with no personal responsibility?
· Why some people outside the USA are risking their lives to obtain individual freedoms while the others are easily trading their individual freedoms for government-imposed servitude?
· Why we are harming our Judeo-Christian spiritual foundation to advance the globalization idea?
· Why Jewish and Christian spiritual leaders are scared of defending Judeo-Christian principles in the government legislative work?
· Why the Jewish spiritual leaders are not able to unite the Jewish majority around the idea of building a better world for everybody with everybody?
· Why Orthodox rabbis prefer indoctrinating instead of reasoning in free-of-all discussions on the interpretation of the Torah thus severely limiting their spiritual influence?
· Why we are afraid of letting everybody to have a personalized individual image of God?
· Why most of our rabbis are scared of Christianity instead of treating Christianity as a Jewish victory over paganism?
· Etc.
I am not just questioning and researching – I am writing about all my discoveries and making them available to everybody for spiritual deliberations. I am writing since I believe many Jews and Christians are questioning all in the above as I do but just do not have time and analytical tools to get answers on their own.
I believe my writings are of interest to others.
It is so because
· my goal is not to prove that somebody is wrong – too many people are busy with this; my goal is to find out why this somebody is different and what might be a common spiritual foundation that can transform this somebody from a spiritual adversary into a spiritual competitor
· my guiding light is the Torah/Bible – not in rabbis’ interpretations, although their interpretations are a good start, - but rather in the Torah-guided search of the true meaning of the image of God since we all “are made in the image and likeness of God”
· my core interest in the Torah/Bible is not the religious rituals but rather the meaning of Eternity and Creativity for us the humans since we are created “in His image and likeness” – in the image and likeness of Him who is the Eternal and the Creator
· my deliberations are based on the reason leading to faith – not on the faith neglecting the reason
- my writings are based on my life endeavors – under dictatorship and freedom, in religious and atheistic communities, being fairly poor and fairly rich, subjected to severe anti-Semitism and fighting the anti-Semitism, in places with historically established traditions and traditions in making.