Skepticism Can Lead Both Ways

This month, an Israeli rabbi, Adin Steinsaltz, 73, celebrated the completion of an epic project he began in the 1960s: A 45-volume translation of and commentary on the Babylonian Talmud. Born into a not-very-religious home, he was tempted by faith in his teens:

“By nature I am a skeptical person, and people with a lot of skepticism start to question atheism,” he said.