SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH You, or someone you know, grew up in an observant family and schools, and now has doubts, and describes himself [meant to include both genders] as honestly searching for the truth. Ask yourself [or him] these questions: Is science vs. Torah one of your problems? Then have you read: Genesis and Genes by Yoram Bogacz Torah, Chazal and Science by Moshe Meiselman Genesis and the Big Bang by Gerald Schroeder [even though I do not agree with this book - have you/he read it?] In the Beginning by Nathan Aviezer [even though I do not agree with this book - have you/he read it?] There is a God by Antony Flew Signature in the Cell by Stephen Meyer God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? by John Lennox The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions by David Berlinski some of them? one of them? none of them? If the last, you are not honestly searching for the truth. Is evidence for the truth of the Torah your problem? Then have you read: Permission to Believe and Permission to Receive by Lawrence Kelemen [even though I do not agree everything in these books - have you/he read them?] Living Up to the Truth http://www.dovidgottlieb.com/publications.htm by Dovid Gottlieb The Informed Soul by Dovid Gottlieb Beyond a Reasonable Doubt by Shmuel Waldman [even though I do not agree with this book - have you/he read it?] some of them? one of them? none of them? If the last, you are not honestly searching for the truth. Is your problem contradictions or other logical faults in Jewish sources? then have you read: The Way of God by Luzzatto [this edition: https://www.amazon.com/Elucidated-Derech-Hashem-Rabbi-Naiman/dp/1598269127/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470314677&sr=1-1&keywords=abba+zvi+Naiman] The Kuzari by Yehudah Halevi [this deition: https://www.amazon.com/Kuzari-Defense-Despised-Classics-Library/dp/1598269615/ref=pd_sim_14_7?ie=UTF8&dpID=51zObpYLsCL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR106%2C160_&psc=1&refRID=75MY6EEGTCEE1WHCNQK9] Horeb by Samson Raphael Hirsch The Nineteen Letters by Samson Raphael Hirsch Strive for Truth by Rav Dessler The Informed Soul by Dovid Gottlieb Emuna by Dovid Sapirman some of them? one of them? none of them? If the last, you are not honestly searching for the truth. Is your problem the reliability or coherence of the Oral Tradition? then have you read: Strive for Truth by Rav Dessler The Oral Law by Harry Schimmel The Dynamics of Dispute 2ed. by Zvi Lampel Maimonides' Introduction to the Talmud by Zvi Lampel some of them? one of them? none of them? If the last, you are not honestly searching for the truth. Is your problem philosophical issues like free will? then have you read: Strive for Truth by Rav Dessler Masterplan by Aryeh Carmell Halachic Man, and The Halachic Mind by Josehph Soloveitchik Living Inspired by Akiva Tatz Will, Freedom and Destiny by Akiva Tatz Letters to a Buddhist Jew by Akiva Tatz Worldmask by Akiva Tatz some of them? one of them? none of them? If the last, you are not honestly searching for the truth. ...........to be continued...........