emunah

Noun

emunah (uncountable)

1. (Judaism) faith, sincere belief, conviction.
   • I've seen cases in which #1 might possibly be true, though the only way to do so would entail something like suicide of the soul anyway. And who knows, maybe the idea is that such a person will have it "made up" to them in Olam HaBa. But there's emuna and there's emuna. The emuna that's strong...1997 January 11, li...@interport.net, “Lesbianism in Halakha”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet)
   • By 1900, many of the young who grew up in the Hirschian community had dropped out and even among those who remained committed, their religious observance was rather formalistic and arid. The thing that really saved German Orthodoxy was the renewed contact between German Orthodox Jews with those...2006 February 28, YM, “Rabbi Wein on Robert Auman and parshas Vayishlach”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet)