Torah and Science Links 1:

Here are some interesting links I have found with regard to the topic of Torah and Science:
1. Ascent: The Centre for Jewish Mysticism in Safed and the Galil – Torah and Science
2. Torah Science Foundation: Where Kabbalah meets Science
3. Mind over Matter:
Mind Over Matter is freely translated from the Rebbe’s talks, discourses and letters on science, technology and medicine. It covers such diverse topics as proof of the Creator, origin of the species, aviation, fate vs. freedom, geometry, medicine and more.
4. When the Torah Doesn’t Mean What It Says: Non-Literal Interpretation of Scripture and the Controversy over the Works of Nosson Slifkin (R’ Jeremy Weider)


No 1,2,3 cover the issues of Torah and Science from a Lubavitch perspective.
No 4, is a audio lecture by R’ Jeremy Weider, a Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University. In all honesty, I find his conclusions somewhat surprising. In my understanding, he basically arrives at the same conclusion as R’ Shubert Spiro in his (in?)famous "The Biblical Stories of Creation, Garden of Eden and the Flood: History or Metaphor?". I would not call the approach heresy, however, I feel it is highly untraditional, and ultimately avoids the real issues in the Science and Torah debate.

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