Torah & Science

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...

"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..."

"I know all about astronomy," insisted the rabbi. "Tvinkle, tvinkle little stah."

A new science that sees consciousness not as an epiphenomenon, but as a building block of existence

The debate continues, but the debaters have changed

Speculations about the Kosher laws: would our rabbis be more successful in getting their message across if they exchanged their black frocks for white lab coats?

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

"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..."

It is not easy to understand how a world view that leads nowhere and ultimately explains nothing became so rooted in the human psyche

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...

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

In the works of the Lubavitcher Rebbe we find a fascinating convergence of traditional Jewish mysticism, Halachah and quantum physics, providing a comprehensive description of the function of the human being within the cosmic creative process.

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...

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

From The Man and the Century: A Biography of Ideas--a timeline biography of the 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

How the technological advances of recent times are connected to approach of the Messianic Era