Sunday, November 16, 2008

Parshas Vayeira: The Expulsion of Hagar

›
I apologize for allowing Shabbos to pass without having posted on the parsha. Truthfully the only thing I could think of was a counter-missi...

Chayei Sarah: The Eliezer Doublet

›
The bulk of Parshas Chayei Sarah is the well known account of Avrohom sending his servant, whom we are told is Eliezer (see Genesis 15:2), t...

›
R. Gil Student has followed up his post Seven Unconvincing Arguments for the Documentary Hypothesis with the veryinteresting Lot and the Fl...
Friday, November 14, 2008

Natural Selection is Apikorses. Period. (כנ"ל anyways)

›
In light of my earlier discussion on Creation Yesh m’Ayin inevitably leading to the appearance of age (and perhaps best thought of as actua...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

›
Image of planet outside our solar system.
Thursday, November 6, 2008

Parshas Lech Lecha: The Master of the Mansion

›
Our tradition begins with Avrohom Avinu. He is the physical, but even more so the spiritual, father of the Jewish people. The narrative of ...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Here Gosse Nothing...

›
One particularly obnoxious objection against resolving the age of the universe is the attempt to "pasul" it as a Christian idea si...

Parshas Noach: Evidence for a Global Flood?

›
When I was younger, much much younger, I had a plan. I and a couple of my friends where going to be missionaries. Well not just missionaries...
Friday, October 24, 2008

Because to dan l'kaf chov is a lack of "Derech Eretz"

›
This is adapted from a comment made on the post at the Divrei Chaim Blog hachanos for mitzvos - how NOT to buy an esrog or build a sukkah ....
Sunday, October 19, 2008

Parshas B’reishis: In the Beginning, Brias HaOlam according to the Torah and the contemporary scientific understanding

›
The most obvious challenge, though perhaps not the most difficult one, which modern science presents to Torah Judaism is the radically diver...
Tuesday, October 7, 2008

"Guiding" Principles: The Guide for the Perplexed and today's Age of the Universe question

›
While I have done more than a bit of touring the J-Blogosphere, those which I visit quickly became basically canonized and remains very simi...

Falsification

›
I have long noticed that there are those who participate in inner-Orthodox discussion who seem downright flippant about the notion of heresy...
Monday, October 6, 2008

Big Tent or a Clean House?

›
I like people, and I like to get along. All in all I am more comfortable with an Orthodoxy where those who don't agree 100% are comforta...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

Yom Teruah is "Rosh HaShannah"

›
It is well known, of course, that the Chumash identifies the month of Nissan (during which we were redeemed from Egypt) as the beginning of ...

I'm Sorry

›
Wow, I cannot believe I've gone almost the entire week without a post! I apologize to all my readers. That you have borne this in silenc...