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By Yaakov Brawer
It is not easy to understand how a world view that leads nowhere and ultimately explains nothing became so rooted in the human psyche
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By Tzvi Freeman
For millennia we were ridiculed for believing that the world began, cause and effect are not inherently linked, a whole is greater than the sum of its parts, the human psyche is multi-layered...
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An interview with physicist Dr. Charles Townes
"Religion is an attempt to understand the purpose and meaning of our universe. Science is an attempt to understand how our universe works. Well, if there's a purpose and meaning, that must have something to do with how it works..."
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By Arnie Gotfryd
"I know all about astronomy," insisted the rabbi. "Tvinkle, tvinkle little stah."
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By Velvl Greene
The debate continues, but the debaters have changed
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By Velvl Greene
Would our rabbis be more successful in getting their message across if they exchanged their black frocks for white lab coats?
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By Arnie Gotfryd
Imagine if you could turn your very worst liabilities into your most precious assets--using both cutting edge science and state-of-the-art religion, i.e., Judaism
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By Tzvi Freeman
"Every single item in the general doctrine is denied, but the conclusions from the doctrine as a whole are retained. The result is a complete muddle in the scientific thought, in philosophic cosmology and in epistemology..."
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By Yaakov Brawer
One might reasonably suppose that since oxen and pits are facts of life, the Torah must implement laws to govern their many possible interactions. In fact, the situation is just the reverse . . .
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By Yaakov Brawer
There are at least four varieties of ignorance (passive ignorance, active ignorance, essential ignorance, and enlightened ignorance) two of which are beneficial; one of these actually supersedes knowledge
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Are quantum mechanics and Torah complementary?
By Tzvi Freeman
In several letters and talks of the Rebbe we find hints to a fascinating convergence of traditional Jewish thought, Halachah and quantum physics, providing a vision of the place of the human being within the cosmic creative process.
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Three points of interface
By Yitzchak Ginsburgh
In the wondrous realm of subatomic reality, elementary particles move backward in time, leaving "footprints" that are experimentally observable. Thus, the force of tikkun--of negative-entropy--can be discerned in the infinitely small...
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The Logic of Faith
By Arnie Gotfryd
On closer inspection, it seems more akin to ecology than to ethical monotheism... yet this one elegant idea developed by a child some 3,800 years ago, has transformed the world forever
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By Yanki Tauber
From The Man and the Century: A Biography of Ideas--a timeline biography of the Rebbe
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Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
The utility of plowing and sowing is a matter of experience: countless generations of farmers have sown and profited from their toil. Yet the Talmud insists that farming is an act of faith
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Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
How the technological advances of recent times are connected to approach of the Messianic Era
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By Tzvi Freeman
Is Torah really absolute, all-encompassing Truth? Do the rabbis never disagree? Could we have invented Teflon™ and Superglue™ just by reading Torah?
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By Velvl Greene
Sixty-seven different steps have to happen in sequence so that a newborn infant can go from a creature that lives in water to an oxygen-breathing baby. If a company tried to build it, it wouldn’t work
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By Dr. Sofya Nayer and Renata Zimmer
What do Pascal's Triangle, the Golden Proportion, bee populations, flower pedals, pine cone spirals, and the hexagonal-shaped scales in the pineapple have in common?
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By Arnie Gotfryd
At first it feels strange, but within 20 minutes, patients learn to completely substitute the flesh stimulation for eyesigh, and the visual cortex of the brain is harnessed to process these tactile sensations...
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By Arnie Gotfryd
In the middle of this lab session, as literally hundreds of undergraduate students like me were racing against the clock, I was summoned to the side by one of the dozens of supervisors...
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By Arnie Gotfryd
At least ninety percent of Americans pray every day, asking and thanking their Maker for blessings of health, wealth and peace of mind. But what would happen, asked psychologist Nathaniel Lambert of Florida State University, if we focused our prayers on the people that make us mad?
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How we can know what science cannot
By Rucheli Manville
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The London Controversy
By Tzvi Freeman
One November Shabbat afternoon in 1703, Rabbi Nieto stood on the podium in the grand Bevis Marks Synagogue and addressed the congregation. “There is no such thing as nature,” he lectured them. “The word simply does not exist in the Hebrew language.”
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How deep can Talmud go?
By Tzvi Freeman
Quantum logic helps explain a halachic ruling of Maimonides, a puzzling story of the Talmud, a Midrash about the splitting of the Sea of Reeds, and a rabbinic teaching about the relationship between Torah and existence.
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