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 →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
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