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Ya'aqov Shenkin

May 14, 2025, 9:38 PM

Lag B’Omer and the Fruitless Pursuit of Nationalism

Celebrations at Meron for Lag B'Omer, 1997. Photo Credit: Jajo Gluck. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Gemara in Yevamoth 62b informs us: "Ribbi Aqiva had twelve thousand pairs of students... and they all died in the same period, because they did not act with respect towards one another. And the world was desolate until Ribbi...

May 13, 2025, 6:22 PM

The Priest and the Path of Radiant Integrity

The Priest and the Path of Radiant Integrity A Metaphysical Commentary on Emor: Leviticus 21:1–15 (First Aliyah) "… the supernal soul of man is eternal, it therefore shares an affinity with God. So too the soul is incorporeal and it also...

Allen S. Maller

May 11, 2025, 8:31 AM

Fourteen billion years ago there was No Universe; then YHVH-Allah…

All the energy and the matter that has ever been and that will ever be were created during the Big Bang. No new material or energy has been created since then. The term "evolution" usually refers to the biological...

Reuven Chaim Klein

May 10, 2025, 10:31 PM

Roses are Red – shoshanah, chavatzelet, vered

On the 9th of Iyyar in the year 2017, my grandmother Rose (Roszi) Klein passed away. She was born in 1928 in the Hungarian town of Bonyhad to Meir and Devorah Kuttner. After surviving the horrors of the Holocaust and...

Allen S. Maller

May 10, 2025, 8:46 AM

Dr. Higgs and Rabbi Luria Celebrate the Discovery of a Boson like Particle

The discovery of a boson like particle is evidence for Higgs' mathematical theory that energy becomes matter due to a field that provides resistance to some massless particles; thus giving them the mass that allows them to bind together...

Allen S. Maller

May 9, 2025, 12:17 PM

Torah’s Galaxy Formation from First to Last

At first there was nothing: no energy or matter, no change or time, no life, no love, no evolution, no light and darkness, no relationships; no feelings, no thoughts nothing as all: except the One of potentials; and then...

May 6, 2025, 12:56 PM

The Sacred Science of Scent: Mysticism, and Biology Meet

Why does a whiff of incense in the Temple or the aroma of a childhood treat instantly transport us across time and space? A sort of time travel experience? Why does the Torah attach so much importance to the incense...

Reuven Chaim Klein

May 4, 2025, 12:28 AM

Niftar or Dead?

The Torah introduces the laws of the sacrificial services of Yom Kippur by noting that Hashem relayed them to Moses after the deaths (acharei mot) of Aharon’s two sons (Lev. 16:1). The Torah then continues to discuss various other topics, running...

May 1, 2025, 11:12 PM

QM, Superposition, and charging Interest

Harnessing inner strength through the lens of science, as beautifully reflected in the timeless teachings of the Torah, offers a fascinating perspective on understanding ourselves and the universe. In this and the next series of articles, I invite you to...

Apr 28, 2025, 8:12 AM

Eight Meditations to Elevate Your Spirit

In a world with so much noise, tumult and confusion, how to Jewish mystics advise we free our spirit? "Stop and think," is the advice the first Rebbe of Chabad offers in Chapter 41 of the Tanya. Create space—every morning, before...

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