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 […]
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 […]
Platonic realism takes the view that mathematics does not create or invent its “object, but discovers them as Columbus discovered America. Now, if this is true, the objects must in some sense “exist” prior to their discovery. According to Platonic doctrine, the objects of mathematical study are not found in the spatio-temporal order. They are disembodied eternal Forms or Archetypes, which dwell in a distinctive realm accessible […]
The Amazon Forest has been described as the Lungs of the Earth. A major percentage of oxygen on Earth is created there. If the Brazilians succeed at destroying their own forest resource, all the inhabitants of the Earth will suffer. Saving Planet Earth is an Economic and Political Problem. Locals have to be bought off or educated to abide by conservation measures in their local vicinity. (To […]
A study of the fourteen Shorashim to Sefer Hamitzvot is essential for grasping the Rambam’s understanding of “system” and to see how close he came to modern mathematical models exemplifying precision and rigor. Considering the Rambam’s encyclopedic knowledge of Jewish Law and all its sources, it is rather startling to witness his ability to cross over and model a rigorous, logical system in the modern sense of system […]
PDF משניות זכר חנוך – ח (נזיקין ב) משנה משנה מסכת אבות פרק ג משנה יד PDF משנה מסכת אבות פרק ג משנה יד [יד] הוא היה אומר חביב אדם שנברא בצלם חבה יתירה נודעת לו שנברא בצלם שנאמר (בראשית ט) בצלם אלהים עשה את האדם חביבין ישראל שנקראו בנים למקום חבה יתירה נודעת להם שנקראו בנים למקום שנאמר (דברים י”ד) בנים אתם לה’ אלהיכם חביבין ישראל […]
Masechta Sanhedrin, 56a, derives and lists the Seven Noachide Laws. Dinim is one of them. Dinim means that in any civil society, courts of law and a police force must be set up. Courts of law implies a legal system must be erected. According to Rabbi Yitzchak, the Rabbis require that any legal system be modeled according to Jewish Law. Rabbi Yochanan states that the nations of the […]
The Ramban and the Axiomatic Analogy to Torah Law Law is not usually thought of as an axiomatic system. In fact, there is no reason why a legal system cannot be a chaotic conglomeration of rules, some of which may even contradict each other. It would take some bit of research to come up with real historical examples. Jewish Law, as codified by the Rambam, is superbly logical […]
A present-day mathematical logician , Rosser, in Logic for Mathematicians, McGraw-Hill, 1953, p. 11) writes: [The mathematician] should not forget that his intuition is the final authority, so that, in case of irreconcilable conflict between his intuition and some system of… logic, he should abandon the … logic. He can try other systems of… logic, and perhaps find one more to his liking, but it would be difficult […]
For the single best analysis of the Financial Crisis of 2008, please click on this PDF Link. Article written by The Consumer Education Foundation and Wall Street Watch.org. Wall Street Watch Sold Out. Long Version pdf The Financial Crisis of 2008 is a striking example of the breakdown of the Rule of Law in the business and economic sphere, where the regulators are controlled by those they are […]
