Torah, Science, Et Al.

The end of the chapter of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince entitled "Horcruxes" is probably one of the most intellectually ...

I have written a letter to Rabbi Natan Slifkin suggesting that he not use the term "Torah umadda" in reference to his own position...

My ambition is one day to compile a source list complementary to " Sources Indicating That Chazal Did Not Possess Perfect Scientific Kn...

Rabbi Hershel Schachter is among the most masterful teachers of Torah I have had the privilege to see and hear in action. Below, I have asse...

UPDATE---- 10 years later, having heard and read more about this topic----While what I wrote below may technically be true, I think there is...

Rashbam - the great rishon and tosafist, Rashi's grandson, author of the standard commentary on most of Bava Batra and part of Pesachim ...

There is probably a difference between deviating from the methods of the Rishonim on intrinsic Torah issues, and deviating from them as a re...

Modern science has demonstrated the enormous value of empirical study in testing theorems and thereby isolating the truth from everything el...

Note: This letter was sent to The Jewish Observer for publication, but was not published. January 2, 2007 Letters to the Editor The Jewish O...

As is my wont, I have copied portions of my comments on www.hirhurim.blogspot.com (this time on the post http://hirhurim.blogspot.com/2006/...

Several years ago, I partook in a meal of some sort - I think it was Shalosh Seudos - sponsored by a husband and wife observing a yahrzeit, ...

The blogger known as "Freelance Kiruv Maniac" and I seem recently to have concluded a lengthy discussion about the scientific know...

In the (now-)famous entry entitled " Tzeidah " in Rabbi Yitzchak Lampronti's Pachad Yitzchak , Rabbi Lampronti (1679-1756) sug...

The following, except for the Hebrew, is from a comment I have posted to Lakewood Yid's blog article at http://lakewoodyid.blogspot.com/...

Suppose you're a school principal looking to hire a new Judaic studies teacher. There's a certain fellow, X, you'd like to hire...

From "The 'Quebecistan' Question", by Brigitte Pellerin, in The Ottawa Citizen , Aug. 24, 2006, p. A12: After prominent Qu...

Must we believe that spontaneous generation of lice occurs, or that it did, at least, during Talmudic times? Many claim we must, pointing to...

Updated July 16, 2006 In his article entitled "The Myth of Scientific Objectivity" ( The Jewish Observer, May 2006), Rabbi Yonoson...

I just borrowed the recently published volume entitled Afikei Mayim , composed by a (seemingly close) talmid of Rabbi Moshe Shapiro, a Rabbi...

As the title of this post indicates, I have made major changes to my post entitled Sources Indicating That Chazal Did Not Possess Perfect Sc...