Science and Halakhah
I think many discussions of the gemara about rice not producing chameitz head in the wrong direction. The definition of chameitz isn’t entirely scientific. After all, if you mix wheat flour with 100% apple...
by Micha Berger · Published April 7, 2020 – י״ג בניסן תש״פ · Last modified April 7, 2020
I think many discussions of the gemara about rice not producing chameitz head in the wrong direction. The definition of chameitz isn’t entirely scientific. After all, if you mix wheat flour with 100% apple...
by Micha Berger · Published November 3, 2019 – ה׳ במרחשוון תש״פ · Last modified November 3, 2019
The general tendency is not an assertion that the Torah is a source of scientific theory. Chazal simply understood the pesuqim as per then-contemporary science. And it is recorded in the gemara (except according to Rabbeinu Tam) that they changed their opinion when a new theory came along. Just as we today would with our contemporary science.
by Micha Berger · Published December 21, 2010 – י״ד בטבת תשע״א · Last modified December 21, 2010
(Initial post: With thanks to R’ Eli Turkel for providing some of the sources and all of the motivation for this post. (Dec 21st: Significantly expanded to include sources I dug up for further...
by Micha Berger · Published September 7, 2010 – כ״ח באלול תש״ע · Last modified September 7, 2010
There is much todo in some circles about Stephen Hawking’s latest book, “The Grand Design”. Co-written by Leonard Mlodinow, but it’s Hawking’s name in science and sheer genius that gives the book its gravitas,...
by Micha Berger · Published July 29, 2009 – ח׳ באב תשס״ט · Last modified July 29, 2009
Someone on scjm asked the following question: Mainly for those who think some of the tanach is parable Tanach parable or historical? How much is parable & how much is historical? all parable? parable...
by Micha Berger · Published February 5, 2009 – י״א בשבט תשס״ט · Last modified February 5, 2009
[Modified Feb 6, 2005: References raised on an Avodah discussion added. [Modified Feb 5 2009: References to later essays added. -mi] I know of a number of approaches to evolution vs creation in Jewish...
by Micha Berger · Published March 3, 2005 – כ״ב באדר א׳ תשס״ה · Last modified March 3, 2005
This is the nearest I plan to get to discussing L’affaire Slifkin on this blog. I’m not going to discuss issues dealt with by R’ Gil Student in his Hirhurim blog, or in any...
by Micha Berger · Published January 28, 2005 – י״ח בשבט תשס״ה · Last modified January 28, 2005
(You might want to see also Different Approaches to Creation, a survey that just touches on a variety of opinions, as well as Divine Timelessness.) I think that in order to understand Rav Dessler’s...
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