Dr. Moshe Meir: "Two Together: A New Religious-Secular Philosophy" (שניים יחדיו: פילוסופיה דתית-חילונית חדשה) In Hebrew

The book "Shnayim Yachdav: Filosofia Datit-Chilonit Chadasha" (שניים יחדיו: פילוסופיה דתית-חילונית חדשה – translated as "Two Together: A New Religious-Secular Philosophy") is a significant work written by Israeli thinker and educator Dr. Moshe Meir. It was first published in 2009 by Tovi Publishing House and in a new edition in 2012 by the prestigious Magnes Press.

The book represents a breakthrough in modern Jewish philosophy of religion by attempting to overcome the traditional, often hostile division of Israeli society into "patriotic/orthodox dati" (religious) and "secular chiloni" (secular). Dr. Moshe Meir argues that the identity of religious and secular people is not separate, but that both worlds share deep inner bonds. The secular world lives within the religious and the religious within the secular. The author defines fascinating hybrid identities, such as "secular believer" (מאמין חילוני) or "religious secularist." He demonstrates that the dispute between religiosity and secularism does not occur only externally within society, but often within the individual themselves. Meir's work strongly builds upon twentieth-century Jewish thinkers, particularly Hermann Cohen's neo-Kantian philosophy, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's religious existentialism, and the legacy of Hasidic thought. In doing so, it responds to the challenges of the postmodern age.