Why?

• Why is G-d’s knowledge of the future not a contradiction to your free choice?
• Why do women make the berachah She’asani Kirtzono?
• Why must we express gratitude to a friend if everything comes from G-d?

In this groundbreaking work, Judaism’s most challenging questions are addressed with solid proofs and spectacular stories, amassed from thirty years of intense Torah learning. Readers will come away inspired, with a lucid understanding of many of the foundational ideas in Judaism.

“Rabbi Hool has produced a thought-provoking work that will benefit thinkers of all backgrounds and levels of religious knowledge. It is not only deep but very readable as well — an unusual combination!”

Rabbi Dr. Akiva Tatz

“My dear talmid, Rav Doniel Hool, has faithfully transferred the teachings of Gedolei Yisrael that he has heard firsthand over decades of learning in yeshiva.”

Hagaon Rav Tzvi Kushelevsky

“I have my own ‘why’: Why is this book called Why? if Rabbi Hool gives such enlightening answers?”

Rabbi Shraga Kallus

About the Author:

Rabbi Doniel Hool, raised in Kingsbury, London, has been learning full-time for over thirty years, with most of that time in Ponovezh in Bnei Brak and in Mir Yerushalayim. He is a sought-after public speaker in both English and Hebrew, and he has recently completed a sefer on all the Tosafos in Maseches Kesubos.

He and his wife, Avigayil, live in Yerushalayim and have nine children and a growing number of grandchildren.