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Hernan Kopcow

Aug 31, 2023, 3:21 PM

The chagim two years ago I was completely disconnected, I could not feel any highs. Probably the only place I could do feel some sort of connection was at the Kotel \, but the experience repeated itself. When being...

Jun 2, 2022, 10:38 PM

Darwinian Evolution and Creation. Not Two, But One

Rabbi Nassan sustains that the Torah is the blueprint of the Universe, Like an Architect who follows blueprint drawings to build, G-d wrote first the Torah and then followed it to create the Universe. That being the case implies...

May 31, 2022, 6:15 AM

What if the current organization of the land is the ideal one by divine design?

A few months ago, I got an idea that I still don't buy entirely but I have to admit that is a very interesting one. What if except for the fact that we are fighting, the current organization of the...

Feb 3, 2022, 10:15 AM

Moses the good scientist and the COVIDburning bush

Science, practiced with honesty and integrity, is a source of light and knowledge. Practicing it with honesty implies that when the same scientific method that led to so many technological developments, knowledge, and cures, produces results that call into...

Jun 10, 2021, 10:30 PM

Rethinking science in the context of the reproducibility crisis.

In 2015 a crisis of reproducibility left the scientific community in a state of disorientation very similar to the one health officials found themselves during COVID in pre-vaccine times. This article inspired by my own experience in the lab...

About Me

Hernan is an Argentina-born scientist with a passion for Torah study. He holds a BS from the University of Buenos Aires, a MSc from the Weizmann Institute of Science, and a PhD from a combined program between the University of Buenos Aires and Harvard University. In the last years he taught at Yeshiva Ohr Ysrael in Boston and devoted time to the study of the influence of science and jewish sources