Monthly Archives: June 2015

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibility  Corporate Social Responsibility has become a major factor in the running of large corporations. Just as an individual should not Halachically engage in businesses where the profit is derived from illicit behaviour (such as running a house of prostitution or kidnapping innocent young girls for this purpose), so has the idea been extended to Corporations. Whatever the current efficacy of this movement, it is clearly a step […]

Tim Berners-Lee and This Website

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This website is built around the idea of Linked-Data.  Tim Berners-Lee’s great insight is that Linked Data increases intelligence and understanding.   In fact, we learn by Comparison and Contrast. Comparison and Contrast is what enables us to form categories, the basic units of understanding anything.  On this Website I have linked articles which expand and delineate an original idea. Linked-Data is the perfect medium for this. It should […]

הדורות לפניו

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  משנה מסכת עדויות פרק ב משנה ט [ט] הוא היה אומר האב זוכה לבן בנוי ובכח ובעושר ובחכמה ובשנים ובמספר הדורות לפניו והוא הקץ שנאמר (ישעיה מ”א) קורא הדורות מראש אף על פי שנאמר (בראשית ט”ו) ועבדום וענו אותם ארבע מאות שנה ונאמר (שם /בראשית ט”ו/) ודור רביעי ישובו הנה: My interpretation of HaDorot Lefanav follows that of Rabbi Joseph B Soloveitchik,z’l, as found in: Abraham Besdin: […]

FROM THE HUMAN TO THE DIVINE IN JUDGEMENT

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There is a transition from intuition to Halacha in Jewish thought. In the Hakdama to Mitzvat HaBayit by Rabbi Yosef Epstein ztz’l, section two, he outlines in detail the transition from the Intellect and Intuition of the Avot to the requirement to observe the Mitzvot after Kabbalat HaTorah, (the formal acceptance of the Torah by the Jewish People). Rabbi Epstein observes that human intellect is an intermediary between […]

The Connection Between Godel’s Theorem and Psak

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  “We have seen that mathematical propositions which cannot be established by formal deduction from a given set of axioms may, nevertheless, be established by “informal” meta-mathematical reasoning. It would be irresponsible to claim that these formally indemonstrable truths established by meta-mathematical arguments are based on nothing better than bare appeals to intuition.” (Ernest Nagel, Godel’s Proof, p. 112) David Zviel: Godel actually constructs formal statements which must […]

THE INTUITIVE FACTOR IN PSAK

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  הקדמה אגרות משה דכיון שיכולין לפרש בתורה כב”ש וכב”ה הרי נמצא שנאמר כתרוייהו כל זמן שלא נתבטלו דעת אחד ברבים החולקים. וזהו פירוש מי מעקב שמשה שאל למה עושה הקב”ה האותיות למלכים, שיעשו כפי משמעות החכמים בלשון הכתוב והמסור, דמי מעקב שתכתוב באופן שלא יהיה אפשר לפרש רק דרך אחד ככוונתך האמתית ולמה נתת כח מלוכה להאותיות שימצא שלפעמים יעשו שלא ככוונתך. והשיב הקב”ה משום שע”י זה […]

FROM INTUITION TO HAR SINAI

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INTUITION, ETHICAL REASONING AND TORAH LAW, PDF (click here) FROM INTUITION TO HAR SINAI   Rabbi Yosef Dovid Epstein: Hakdama to Mitzvat HaBayit: “If the Torah would not have been given, Man would have discovered the Parsha on Proper Conduct himself, through his own intellect. The Avot learned Torah from their own internal mental processes. They recognized obligations by themselves. From their great wisdom they came to the […]

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr vs Robert Bork

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The Tempting of America by Robert H. Bork “In the past few decades American institutions have struggled with the temptations of politics. Professions and academic disciplines that once possessed a life and structure of their own have steadily succumbed, in some cases almost entirely, to the belief that nothing matters beyond politically desirable results, however achieved. In this quest, politics invariably tries to dominate another discipline, to capture […]