[Avodah] Humanoids, Who Cares? What Difference Does it Make? Probably not Talmud Torah.

[Lisa Liel]

Actually, with all due respect, Rabbi, it makes an enormous difference.  
Perhaps not to you or to me, but there are many Jews (and their number 
is growing) who are troubled by a cultural imperative to accept the 
principle of evolution on the one hand, and the fact that the Torah 
seems to describe something very different on the other.

I don't believe that we can just dismiss such dilemmas as irrelevant, 
because they are (a) preventing Jews from being chozer b'teshuva and (b) 
causing Jews to go off the derekh.

On a personal level, no, it doesn't have to make any difference to you.  
But scorning the question seems a bit less compassionate than one would 
hope.

Lisa

On 9/20/2011 2:48 AM, Meir Rabi wrote:
> The new book Echoes of Eden by Rabbi Ari Kahn .... that Adam Harishon 
> co-existed with non-human humanoids. This says Rabbi  Moshe Eisemann, 
> is the position of the  Ramban.
>
> Who Cares?
> What Difference Does it Make?
> Angels dancing on the head of a pin.
> Must I accept/believe these positions?
>
> Why does anyone bother with these types of inquiries?
> Is it Talmud Torah? and I dont accept that the Ramban's including it 
> (if he did indeed include it) as a comment proves that it is TT.
>
> Best,
>
> Meir G. Rabi
>
>
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