Questions Worth Asking
Grouped four ways: the movement, our convictions, the approach, and getting involved. If your question isn’t here, write us — connect@talmid.life.
A Note Before You Read
The rabbis who shaped the world Jesus stepped into taught almost entirely this way — a question met with a question, an objection weighed in the open, never silenced. The Mishnah still preserves centuries of arguments between rabbis who disagreed with each other on nearly everything, generation after generation — and it preserves both sides, on purpose. Of two schools that disagreed constantly, the sages said: “These and these are the words of the living God.” Disagreement, argued honestly, was never a threat to truth. It was how a community kept its grip on it.
So this page isn’t a legal disclaimer or a list of talking points. It’s the oldest pedagogy we know, aimed at the questions people actually ask — including several convictions that won’t be popular with every reader. We could have softened them or left them out. We’d rather hand them to you plainly, the way a rabbi hands a hard text to a talmid: not to win an argument, but because you deserve to know exactly what you’re looking at before you decide whether to walk closer.
If you reach Our Convictions and disagree with something — good. That’s not a flaw in this page. It’s the method working as intended. We mean what we say at the end of that section: disagreement doesn’t have to mean distance.
Part One
About the Movement
Part Two
Our Convictions
Part Three
About the Approach
Part Four
About Getting Involved
Still Have Questions?
Write us anytime at connect@talmid.life — or start with the emails: a short series over two weeks, selected chapters of Don’t Tread On Jesus among them, then Dust, our regular newsletter.