[Avodah] use of reason

Eli Turkel eliturkel at gmail.com
Tue May 12 13:09:28 PDT 2009


<<The following statement is made in the article (fourth
paragraph):"From these two definitions we see that science formulates and
deals with theories and hypotheses while Torah deals with absolute truths. >>

Obviously they dont follow the Rambam.
The obvious conclusion is that G-d has a hand since the Torah talks about
yad chazakah (and myriads other such anthromorphisms) and we dare not
use our human logic to deny the absolute truth of the Torah

Does this also extend to pi=3 since that is implied by yam shel shlomo and
any other explanations are rationalizing a pasuk into a mathematical
theorem which
obviously cant compete with absolute truth

Bottom line there are many pesukim we don't take literally

-- 
Eli Turkel



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