Let’s distinguish wisdom from knowledge in general. It is more than just practical information about how the world is, how to maintain things like our health or our prosperity. Wisdom refers to the ...

Recently the NPR program "Science Friday" featured a young biologist named Danielle Lee. In the course of talking about the excitement of her career, she commented that individual curiosity is the ...

This Sunday, the readings highlight the Judeo-Christian wisdom tradition found in Scripture. Wisdom literature takes many forms in the Bible. One form is as a set of “sayings,” aphorisms and proverbs, ...

The Apostle Peter exhorted believers to “make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge, and to knowledge, self control” (2 Peter 1:6). The word “knowledge” is used ...

In commenting on the story of Nadav and Avihu, Aharon’s two sons who died while presenting a fire offering to G-d, Rashi does something very unusual. The famous exegete extraordinaire seems to ...

"Wisdom is wanting to do the right thing" says Paul Swamidass in this opinion piece. In an age or high moral relativity and social complexity the "right thing" can be difficult to discern. Thankfully, ...

Over the years, authors and philosophers have tried to define wisdom and differentiate it from knowledge imparted by schools and colleges. Michael Witzel and Gavin Flood’s research on Vedas and ...

Now, with the release of the Godfrey Rust album 'Entangled', the thoughts, writings and history of two ancient Jewish kings ...