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I would like for a rabbi to answer this question for me. Suppose you have two men. One is straight and the other is gay. For the one who is straight, it is very easy not to violate the negative commandment in the Torah forbidding lying carnally with another man, and therefore easy to avoid the punishment for doing so. But for the gay man, it is very difficult to avoid violating the same commandment, and because he is most likely to commit this sin, he will suffer the punishment because of his attraction to men, a trait he has not chosen to have. This is just an example. Some people have the inborn desire to commit certain sins, almost to the point of being unable to have the control, and any effort to resist their urge to commit such a sin is too much to bear, either physically or emotionally. But because of this, they will be punished, all as another person not born with the same urge can easily avoid the punishment. My question is, how is that fair?

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Although ethnically I am partially Jewish and have been very involved in the Jewish community, it's not through a matrilineal line, so I am not halachically Jewish --- and I am getting ready for my first meeting with a local rabbi to begin the formal conversion process. This is something I have wanted to do for a long time. While I am of course saving my questions for him - I have one question about the initial meeting that I am hoping to find the answer to on my own: We will be meeting at his office in the synagogue building. When I go to services at a synagogue, I always wear a kippa while there. I, of course, do not wear one outside as I don't want to misrepresent myself. My question is: For this initial meeting, since it's in the synagogue building but not in the sanctuary itself... should I wear my kippa out of respect for the rabbi and the space? Or should I not wear it because it is just in his office and I am just in the formal conversion process? I don't want to do anything to inadvertently offend or seem inappropriate. For context, I am meeting with a Modern Orthodox Rabbi. Thank you in advance!

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Today I saw a sticker on a lamppost that said “Free Palestine.” I was tempted to remove it. To do so would be legal. The law where I live is that anyone is allowed to remove anything someone else puts on a public lamppost, whether it be advertising or something political. Then I was thinking of all the “kidnapped” signs for the hostages that all the anti-Israel people ripped down out of hate. I also thought of the saying from Hillel that the Torah can be summarized by in one line by saying not to do to another what you would not want someone to do to you. As awful as it sounds to me, the “Free Palestine” slogan is someone exercising their freedom of speech. And I would not want someone ripping off my sign that I pinned up, especially one in support of Israel. What is the proper thing to do?

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I’m curious how Judaism responds to this argument against the existence of god here in case you do not use youtube, the argument is god is logically impossible under the law of identity, since god is infinite and thus has no identity which means he cannot exist, they say to exist is to exist with identity

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Do the rabbis here know of any Jewish theologians or rabbis who had correspondence with or are influenced by the Hermeneutic philosophy of Paul Ricoeur