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Jul 6, 2015 · In the immortal teaching of one of the greatest of rabbinic sages, Rabbi Yehoshua, “it is not in heaven”. In defense of an approach against capital punishment, many will no doubt turn to the ...
Conservative Judaism embraces science as a way to learn about God’s creation and like Orthodox and Reform Judaism, has found the theory of evolution a challenge to traditional Jewish theology. The Conservative Jewish movement has not yet developed one official response to the subject, but a broad array of views has converged.
Sir Richard Owen, the renowned British paleontologist, coined the collective term Dinosauria, Greek for "terrible lizards." Even the plant-eating dinosaurs were awe-inspiring. Triceratops, larger than an elephant, had a fearsome array of horns on its armored skull. The large sauropods, Brachiosaurus and Ultrasaurus, weighed more than eighty ...
Judaism. Christianity began as a movement within Second Temple Judaism, but the two religions gradually diverged over the first few centuries of the Christian era. Today, differences of opinion vary between denominations in both religions, but the most important distinction is Christian acceptance and Jewish non-acceptance of Jesus as the ...
Feb 26, 2020 · Yeshiva-educated Jews take pride in making fine distinctions. Perhaps rightfully so. The ability to distinguish – after all – is the basis of wisdom, says the Gemara.
Judaism is based on a strict monotheism, and a belief in one single, indivisible, non-compound God. The Shema Yisrael, one of the most important Jewish prayers, encapsulates the monotheistic nature of Judaism: [2] "Hear, O Israel: The L ORD is our God; the L ORD is one."
Feb 8, 2022 · While the overwhelming majority of individuals (academics and laypeople alike) manifestly believe that “orthodox” Judaism does have boundaries, very few seem able to agree how and where these should be drawn. *** My objective so far has been to lay down and partially substantiate three basic premises:
