In this book, Samuel Lebens takes the three principles of Jewish faith, as they were proposed in the fifteenth century by Rabbi Joseph Albo, and seeks to scrutinise and refine them with the tool-kit of contemporary analytic philosophy.

Samuel Lebens is Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Haifa. His research interests focus on the history of early analytic philosophy, the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. Having received his PhD from Birkbeck College, London, Lebens held post-docs at the University of Notre Dame, and Rutgers University before taking up his current position at the University of Haifa. Lebens is also an ordained Orthodox Rabbi and the chairperson and co-founder of the Association for the Philosophy of Judaism. His publications include Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age (co-edited with Dani Rabinowitz and and Aaron Segal; 2019) and Bertrand Russell and the Nature of Propositions: A History and Defence of the Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement (2017).

• 1: Introduction Avoiding a Paradoxical Preface


• Part I - Creation


• 2: Creatio Ex Nihilo


• 3: Idealism Ex Nihilo


• 4: Hassidic Idealism Responding to Problems


• 5: Hassidic Idealism Some Hidden Benefits


• Part II - Revelation


• 6: What is the Torah? The Internal Problem with Revelation


• 7: Ongoing Revelation and the External Problems with Revelation


• Part III - Redemption


• 8: Redeeming the Past


• 9: Conclusions: Frumkeit, Faith, and Make-Belief


• Bibliography