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Jeremy England

Former- MIT-physics-prof-turned-rav in Israel
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Jun 19, 2022, 7:22 AM
The Unmagical Temple: A Restaurant
Credit: Jeremy England
One way you can tell how alienating advanced, capitalist, Western societies are is to look at the kinds of eating experiences people crave and are willing to pay for. Ultra-expensive, fancy restaurants advertise how carefully they source their ingredients based...
May 27, 2022, 10:46 AM
The Unmagical Temple: A City
There is no way of understanding the practical impact that the mikdash (temple) is meant to have on the economic and social order of a Judaic society without considering it in the context of Jerusalem, the city within which...
May 19, 2022, 7:30 AM
The Unmagical Temple: Gathering
People like to gather. We do so for all sorts of purposes – sporting events, concerts, arts festivals, farmers’ markets etc. – and in each of these cases, part of what we get out of it has nothing to do...
May 8, 2022, 4:39 PM
The Unmagical Temple: Azure Strings
Why is tkhelet (azure) the key to everything else when it comes to bringing the Torah back to its full life? Of course the story of tkhelet is inspiring: the rabbinic knowledge regarding which mollusk this dye for priestly...
May 2, 2022, 12:56 AM
The Unmagical Temple
The Hebrew Bible and Talmud often describe events fantastically: from splitting seas to talking serpents, we get used to the idea that these accounts are not constrained by what we might call the rules of everyday life.  This way...
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About Me
Jeremy England is physicist, biologist, and machine learning researcher who also has received ordination as an orthodox rabbi. Previously a physics professor at MIT, he now resides in Israel and loves exploring the Torah’s commentaries on scientific reasoning.