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Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 12, 2025

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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I vaguely recall hearing (I think from Russ Roberts on EconTalk) that there is some debate in Jewish communities about whether belief in god is necessary for practicing Judaism. I vaguely recall him saying something about how there is no command in the Hebrew bible that people need to believe. I haven't done a whole lot of digging in to these schools of thought, so I don't really know if there are any communities like this or what they're like.