About — Rabbi Michael Abraham English Portal

About This Portal

Welcome to the English-language portal of mikyab.net, the website of Rabbi Dr. Michael Abraham. This portal contains automated English translations of Rabbi Abraham's articles, Q&A discussions, and recorded lectures — all originally published in Hebrew.

The portal was created to make this body of work accessible to readers around the world who do not read Hebrew fluently. It is offered as a free service to the international community interested in serious, philosophically rigorous Jewish thought.

About Mikyab.net

Mikyab.net is one of the most active Hebrew-language platforms for serious discussion of Jewish thought, halacha, philosophy of religion, and the intersection of Torah and modern science. For over a decade, Rabbi Abraham has used the site as a venue for column-style essays, ongoing public Q&A correspondence with readers from around the world, and extensive recorded lecture series on topics ranging from probability theory in halacha to free will, evolution, ethics, and meta-halachic methodology.

Translated Content

The following sections are available in English translation:

• Translated Articles: 951 essays — 765 numbered weekly columns and 186 longer articles — spanning topics in Jewish thought, halachic methodology, philosophy of religion, ethics, and the relationship between Torah and the modern world.
• Translated Q&A: 17,221 question-and-answer threads in which readers raise philosophical, halachic, and personal questions and Rabbi Abraham responds at length. Many threads include extended back-and-forth discussions with the questioner and other commenters.
• Translated Lectures: 1,765 transcribed lectures, organized into thematic series such as "Doubt and Probability in Halacha, Thought, and General," "A Look at Torah and Torah Study," "Faith, Doubt and Certainty," and many others. Each lecture is a full transcription of a recorded class, with the in-class discussion preserved.

About the Translation

All translations on this portal were produced automatically using GPT-5.4. The translation aims for natural, readable English while preserving Rabbi Abraham's analytical style and the technical Jewish terminology. Hebrew source quotations (Tanakh, Talmud, Rishonim) are translated to English, while the names of texts and traditional Jewish proper nouns retain their standard transliterations.

Each translated page includes a link back to the original Hebrew version, and readers for whom precision matters are encouraged to consult the Hebrew source.

Because the translation is produced by a language model, occasional inaccuracies, awkward phrasings, or untranslated proper nouns may remain. The Hebrew original is always the authoritative version.

About Rabbi Dr. Michael Abraham

Rabbi Dr. Michael ("Michi") Abraham is an Israeli rabbi, philosopher, and scientist. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Bar-Ilan University and rabbinical ordination, and he lectures at Bar-Ilan University in the program for advanced talmudic studies. His written and oral output spans an unusually wide range — from the foundations of talmudic logic and the philosophical analysis of halachic reasoning, to the philosophy of free will, the relationship between science and faith, ethics, and political philosophy.

His major published works include the multi-volume series The Talmudic Logic (with Gabriel Hazut and Uri Shild), the philosophical trilogy Two Carts and a Hot Air Balloon, God Plays Dice on free will and the natural sciences, Sciences of Freedom, and many other books and articles. He is known for a distinctive analytical, sometimes counter-intuitive approach to traditional Jewish texts and questions, drawing freely on tools from analytic philosophy, mathematical logic, and the natural sciences.

The Original Hebrew Site

For the most current content, active discussions, comments, and the rich community of Hebrew readers and respondents, please visit the original Hebrew site at mikyab.net. New content is published there continuously, and only a fraction of it — the historical archive available at the time of translation — is reflected in this English portal.