 Current Edition
B'Or Ha'Torah 19
5770/2009
(160 pages in English)
The Talmud Sages had extraordinary insights into human genetics. In BHT 19 Rabbi Professor Avraham Steinberg, MD, explains that Jewish law today permits research on embryonic stem cells because the Talmud states that in its first forty days the embryo is not yet a human being. Biologist Leah Poltorak sharpens the focus and shows that new genetic research supports the opinion in the Talmud that the determination of male gender takes forty days; and of female gender, eighty days.
Do you want your son or daughter to be a Jewish doctor? Gilles-Avraham Morali, MD, takes us through the history of and current research on the soul-body connection in medicine and concludes that hypnosis is the most genuinely Jewish form of treatment. Computer chip engineer Mois Navon applies the mathematics of phi to tying beautiful tsitsit strings with tekhelet. Professor of product design Yossef Zukin applies fuzzy logic and complex adaptive systems to the Torah to show us how user-friendly it is. English literature professor Dan Vogel follows the development of Franz Kafka's Jewish consciousness from writing surrealistic forebodings of the Holocaust to delighting in learning Torah with Rashi.
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On the Embryological Foresight
of the Talmud
Leah Poltorak, MS |
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Is Gender Determined by External Organs
or by Genes?
Rabbi Gideon Weitzman |
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The Holy Act: Emulating G-d in Marriage and Birth
Moshe Kuhr, MD |
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Jewish Medical Ethics for the Student and Practitioner
Professor Fred Rosner, MD, MACP |
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Is It Time for Jewish Medicine?
Gilles-Avraham Morali, MD |
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Why the Biopsychosocial Model of Chronic
Illness Works
Amiel Levin, MD |
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Rav's Beautiful Ratio: An Excursion into
Aesthetics
Rabbi Mois Navon |
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Complex Adaptive Systems in the Light of the Torah
Rabbi Professor Yossef Zukin |
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Corporate Stumbling Blocks and Blind
Consumers
Rabbi Carmi Wisemon, MSW |
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Truth Consciousness: Inner Landscapes of Authenticity in Chinese and Jewish Tradition
Professor Vera Schwarcz |
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Franz Kafka's Foreboding of the Holocaust and His Late Thirst for Judaism
Professor Dan Vogel |
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Letter to the Editor
Book Reviews
About Our Artists
Poetry |
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