Sunday, November 22, 2009

Faith with astrixes

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I just ran across a comment I posted at http://www.rationalistjudaism.com/2009/07/rav-aviner-on-dinosaurs.html and realized that 1) I liked...

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" Teshuvas HaMinim is intended to answer the claim that Christianity, in all of its various manifestations, is a continuation and fulf...
Sunday, November 15, 2009

Retroactive Retraction

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Before my audience begins to think I'm just being argumentative for arguments sake I would like to take this opportunity to, for the tim...

Kuzari and the Age of the Universe

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Recently it was argued, off the cuff, that the Kuzari should be understood as referring to when Adam HaRishon received a soul and therefore...
Friday, November 13, 2009

R. Micha on Creation...

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In his own words, on his own terms: Different Approaches to Creation
Thursday, November 12, 2009

The Meiri, Chidush HaOlam, and Allegorizing B'reshis

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Previously I mentioned the position of the Meiri with respect to the issue of allegorizing B'reishis: The Meiri has three classificatio...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

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R. Gil recently commented : OTOH I know an OJ Rabbi who just says "Nu, so Chazal were wrong on that point, its not the end of the world...

New Criticism of Sheitel's from India

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CNN (PG) Rock discovered the hottest hair on the market is found in India, where human hair is the number two export behind software. ...
Sunday, November 1, 2009

Response to R. Micha's Questions on Retroactive Existence

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R. Micha has left me a number of question to my previous post which I think deserve to be addressed, and I am exercising my discretion as t...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

Apparent Age

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In a recent post at Seforim, R. Marc B. Shapiro takes a shot at historical revisionism at the expense of the apparent age approach: Any writ...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Farewell to Geocities

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I was reminded, just in time, that any moment now Geocities (and my small corner there) will cease to exist. I have long used writing as a w...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Machzikei Hadasim

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Our readers ask... (well maybe not precisely )
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

בכח ידי עשיתי and Science Daily

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" ScienceDaily (2009-10-20) -- Jerusalem's geology has been crucial in molding it into one of the most religiously important citie...
Monday, October 19, 2009

Shalom Aleichem

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I just wanted to touch base with everyone. Tishrei has been a busy time. In addition to so many uplifting Yomim Tovim, I've been working...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Rashi and Corporealism

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FKM has a very interesting Rashi . Rather than get beat to a pulp for trying to reason at this time of night, perhaps you can give me some i...