[Avodah] bat issues

[Harry Maryles]

--- On Wed, 11/16/11, T613K at aol.com <T613K at aol.com> wrote:




Those rabbanim and Torah leaders of our own day who insist that every scientific statement in the Gemara is knowledge handed down from Sinai should not be treated with disdain and sarcasm.  Yesh lahem al mi lismoch.  And it goes without saying, those who say that scientific statements in the Gemara were not handed down from Sinai, of them too it is true that yesh lahem al mi lismoch.

 
I think this is a machlokes leshem Shomayim.
 
The only caveat is that the discussion must indeed be conducted on a high level, leshem Shomayim.  To keep it that level, the discussion has to be without personal rancor, even in a case where a person has every reason to feel personal hurt and pain and would be almost a malach to suppress all emotion and always take the high road.  
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I totally agree with you. But those on the other side of the issue say that it is no longer acceptable to say that Chazal could have erred in matters of science. They say it is now Apikursus to say that Chazal erred in matters of science. That's one of the reasons RNS's books were banned... considering it an even a greater problem than his attmpts to reconcile the Torah narrative with modern science.
 
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