Torah Observant Jew + Patent Attorney
Synopsis I write this article after a gathering of 300,000 – 600,000 Jews in one place to protest recent army service. This is not to be minimized, though very non-understood. Why are so many...
This is the last in a thread of posts which began with a review of R’Meiselman’s book on Torah and Science, followed by a discussion of the dispute between R’Meiselman and Nosson Slifkin, and...
This is a continuation in the series on Rav Meiselman’s book on Torah and Science and the Controversy between R’Meiselman and Nosson Slifkin. It also might be helpful to see what a modern physicist...
This is part 2 in a series on Rav Meiselman’s latest book. For the full book review, see part 1. Road-Map to These Articles In my review of Rav Meiselman’s book, the purpose was...
I realize I have a diverse reading audience – this article is really intended for a Jewish audience … if you’re a believing Christian, you probably won’t be interested. It describes the experience of...
Introduction In the article, Folly of Faith, Folly of Reason, one of the things I argued based on Isaac Asimov’s short story, “Reason” was that point of view on topics beyond the dimensions that...
The Claim of the Unbroken Chain One of the claims to the authenticity of the Torah is that there is an unbroken chain – the descendants of those who spent 40 years in the...
Okay, short answer: Because our Maker said so. Shorter answer: I don’t know. We can pretty much answer that for any commandment in the Torah, but that doesn’t really help a woman who is...
In this article, I attempt to make a few points: a) Point of view on topics beyond the dimensions that we can observe is based on emotion; b) People tend to illogically ignore evidence...
Why We Should Marry and Why Marriage is Only for Man and Woman Together What’s the purpose of life? To live longest? Propagate our ideas longest? To live until we die and then ‘whatever’?...