Scientists are discovering what believers have always known It was during residency training at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas, when I had my first patient with terminal cancer in both lungs. I advised him on what therapy was available and what little I thought it would
Read more →Our Universe –space, matter, energy and time — Where did it all come from? We see that the Universe is in the midst of a process. In other words, it is different today than it was yesterday, and it will be different tomorrow than it is today.
Read more →Part I: Classical Presentation Thesis: Since we are able to conceive of and discuss the concept of a perfect, infinite G-d, He must exist. Premise: Human beings can only conceive of or discuss something if they have had either direct experience with it, or with its component parts. In
Read more →1. Empirical evidence refers to evidence that is so clear as to be self-evident. Is it possible for there to be an Empirical Proof for G-d – ie., this type of empirically clear evidence for G-d’s existence? The Rosh HaYeshiva explains that if a person would actually
Read more →Author: Scientists are discovering what believers have always known It was during residency training at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas, when I had my first patient with terminal cancer in both lungs. I advised him on what therapy was available and what little I thought it
Read more →Author: Jeanie Davis People Who Are Prayed for Fare Better Nov. 6, 2001 — Here’s more evidence that — in medicine, as in all of life — prayer seems to work in mysterious ways. In one recent study, women at an in vitro fertilization clinic had higher
Read more →Author: Jonathan Rosenblum Here’s an interesting fact just in. Bnei Brak, Israel’s most religious city, also has the highest average life expectancy: 81.1 years for women and 77.4 years for men. What makes that finding even more curious is that Bnei Brak also happens to be Israel’s
Read more →Author: David Brooks In the 1970s, the gift shop at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was an informal affair. It was staffed by about 300 mostly elderly volunteers, and there were cash drawers instead of registers. The problem was that of the shop’s $400,000 in
Read more →Breishit 29 The Destruction of Shechem: Is Killing Ever Kosher? (Ch. 34) Two years ago, after many months of Palestinian violence, the Israeli army invaded Jenin, a center of terrorism in the West Bank. The world was outraged—Israel going after terrorists in a crowded refugee camp would be sure
Read more →If you love goodness and hate evil, this is a tough time to stay sane. Israel has killed Abdel Aziz Rantisi, the Hamas terror leader, and almost every nation in the world and the nations’ theoretical embodiment, the United Nations, have condemned Israel for doing so. World
Read more →Author: Dennis Prager, Joseph Telushkin If there is no G-d, then there can be no objective to do good and evil, and so ultimate ,purpose to our existence. For these reasons, among many others, a committed Jew (a) may not deny G-d’s existence, (b) must struggle with
Read more →Premise: There either exists an Absolute, Objective Scale of Morality, or there exists no system of morality whatsoever (i.e., there is no such thing as “subjective” morality – it is an inherent contradiction in terms). PART I — Consequences of the Denial of this Absolute Objective Scale Introduction: This
Read more →Excerpted with permission from “OUR AMAZING WORLD” – wonders of the world hidden below the surface. Published by ArtScroll/Mesorah – www.artscroll.com by Rabbi A. Katz / T. Cohen The world is full of amazing, wonders of creation. Have you ever traveled by plane, looked out the window, seen
Read more →Material borrowed from Challenge and The Discovery Source Book) MIDRASH RABBA: BERESHIT Sec. 3, sub. sec. 7: Rabbi Judah bar Simon said: It does not say, “It was evening”, but “And it was evening”. Hence we derive that there was a time-system (seder zemanim) prior to this.
Read more →WHEN AN ASTRONOMER writes about G-d, his colleagues may assume he is either over the hill or going bonkers. In my case it should be understood from the start that I am an agnostic in religious matters. However, am fascinated by strange developments going on in astronomy
Read more →INTRODUCTION One of the main reasons that Jewish people do not get more into learning Torah is that it seems inherently impractical….the Torah is full of interesting stories, but “it’s not going to help me be successful at work or in my relationships, right?” THE EXERCISE So
Read more →Author: Rabbi Shraga SimmonsTammuz 5753 See how many creatures there are in the world.Is the voice of one like the voice of any other?Is the appearance of one like the appearance of any other?Is the sense of one like the sense of any other?Is the taste of
Read more →Example #1 One of the oldest and most prestigious scientific associations is Great Britain’s Royal Society. At the end of the 1970’s, OMNI Magazine asked members of the Society to list the five most “sensational” scientific advances of the decade: “The most frequently mentioned paper in the
Read more →Author: Rabbi Eric Coopersmith from The Eye of a Needle What do the wonders of nature tell us about the origin of life? Do they point unmistakably to the existence of a Designer? Let’s look at what our common sense and intuition tell us, what Jewish thought tells us,
Read more →1. The attribute of Emunah (belief in G-d) is a subtle inclination of the sensitivity of the soul. If a man has a strong character and is in a state of quiet contemplation, free of hunger for earthly pleasures, and his eye takes in the spectacle of
Read more →Our Universe –space, matter, energy and time — Where did it all come from? We see that the Universe is in the midst of a process. In other words, it is different today than it was yesterday, and it will be different tomorrow than it is today.
Read more →Breishit 19 (Ch. 20) In the 19th century, a group of German scholars started what developed into modern theories of Bible criticism. Discovering (!) that the Torah uses different names to refer to G-d, they came up with the theory that the Torah was really put together from different documents
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