OPINION & COMMENT

Communicating the Sanctity of Life According to the Torah

A very upsetting incident occurred in Shaarei Tzedek hospital last week, in which organs were taken from a dying (but not yet dead) person in order to help others.

Theories, Geological Evidence, and Assumptions
by R' Dovid Kornreich

In our previous article, we deprived the physicist, geologist, astronomer and dendrochronologist (who studies tree rings) of his justification to extrapolate natural processes into the indefinite past to arrive at the incredible ages given by modern science.

If There is No Yir'oh, There is No Chochmoh
by HaRav Aharon Leib Shteinman, shlita

In the first part, HaRav Shteinman said that Torah needs constant strengthening along with yiras Shomayim, for Torah and yiras Shomayim go hand in hand. Without yiras Shomayim, any outlook is superficial. One needs to seek the truth in order to be worthy.

Longing and Yearning
by HaRav Moshe Samsonowitz

In the first part, HaRav Samsonowitz noted that it was the yearning of the Jewish people to resemble heavenly creations that brought them their arrangement in the Camp in the desert under flags (degolim). On Mount Sinai the Ministering Angels held flaming "flags" of fire when accompanying Hashem as He descended upon the mountain.

Politica: Laying a Trap for Peretz
By E. Rauchberger