ABSTRACT
The Bible never commands to believe, though it commends belief. Unlike Christianity, Judaism does not set up the Bible or the Church as a despotic authority, whose ordinances it is a sin to reason about. Judaism is sometimes spoken of as a practical religion, as a religion whose paramount aim is the regulation of conduct, the hallowing of life. From time to time great teachers have attempted to frame a more or less elaborate scheme of necessary Jewish belief. Religion postulates a Divine Mind as the explanation of the universe. Faith is indispensable to physical science no less than to religion. There are minds for whom the religious life has no evidential value, and who deny that spiritual experience can legitimately be adduced as a witness to the reality of its Divine Subject.
