Do Jews Believe in Miracles?

why does G-d not intervene I think I can understand the every moment is a miracle. I am having trouble understanding why when it seems a miracle is needed it doesn't happen? e.g.. holocaust Reply

do jews believe in miracles? yes...the key is to remember. Reply

What is a miracle? Rabbi Cotler

I am a Jew, put on tefillen, go to shul, believe in G-d. This distressed me. Miracles are events that occur outside of nature. The burning bush, pillar of smoke by day, fire by night. I could go on and I believe that you know it.

I take offence when you obfuscate and infer that we don't know about what we are hearing. If you were talking to very young children who don't know, who's minds are malleable, innocent, and not yet capable of much independent thought, who can't draw on past learnings, who have not yet learned to reason, I can understand.

Your attitude is condescending and patronizing. You explain as if Hashem conferred directly with you. Instead of addressing the question directly, you are creating your own history and definitions. You ignore past historic events as if we were children who had never learned them. You are creating your definitions and terms of reference. I find this insulting and deprecating. Reply

Hashem and the wonderous Miracles I have been witness to miracles on more than one occasion.. My Father's fistula from dialysis blew up.. He was at home in our small town. The only cardiovascular surgeon in our area was in the hospital performing routine surgery when he arrived. He went code blue twice. He was not expected to make it. We prayed hard and he survived and recovered fully. He is in his 18th year of dialysis. Today he is back running his cattle business. I see miracles from G-d in other things but we must have our eyes and hearts open to them. Reply

Do Jews "Believe" in Miracles? It is inappropriate to use such a word combination. We are in the sea of paradoxical miracles. Reply

Domeonr posited that there are no miracles today I disagree, how do we explain the fact that so many bombs fall on Israel several years ago, and yet no one was killed, how do we explain that except that it is a miracle. We think of miracles as something big, like the parting of the Red Sea, there are many small miracles everyday. We humans either deny they happen, or expect them to be earth shattering. We do kind of set ourselves up to deny their existence. Kind of sad if you think about it. Maybe I'm naive, but I choose to believe that miracles do still happen Reply

THE WONDER OF MIRACLES Two years ago I became critically ill to the point where my name was changed and doctors raised their ands in despair. Worldwide people prayed as well as those who were encamped outside the ICU. Interestingly, though, my team of doctors consisted of a German, Indian, Italian and Chinese who turned to those praying after three weeks and told them that they should continue to do whatever it is that they were doing, because it was working. My recovery has been noted as miraculous as my life was literally hanging in the balance. The miraculous happens everyday, from the birth of a child to the rising of the sun. I believe that it is our choice as to whether we choose to see them. Reply

Natural Revelation Rabbi Cotlar, great article, though I'm not entirely literally convinced. I'm a Jewish Deist or a Deistic Jew -- i.e. I "believe" in G-d, but I'm skeptical about miracles. I met an atheistic chemist who uses your sort of terms / images. He said to me, "You believe in the agorophobic G-d; you think G-d is there, but that He hides behind a wall of Natural Law." My dad (who's even more secular than I am) put it best when he said, "Who says G-d is hiding? Maybe the Natural Law is how G-d reveals Himself to us!" That's why I think a good scientist is a sort of prophet. A Christian friend asked me why I doubt miracles. I said, "Because G-d gave us a naturalistic universe." He then asked, "Why pray then?" I said, "To thank G-d for giving us a naturalistic universe." Reply