https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/rav-soloveitchik-solution
In the Rav’s published writings, especially The Halakhic Mind (1984) and even more in newly published lecture notes from his teaching at Yeshiva University in the late 1940s and early 1950s, he advanced a powerful argument that the scientific revolution starting with the 17th-century formulation of the calculus was inspired by Torah. Notes on the Rav’s 1949-50 lectures on Genesis taken by R. Robert Blau and brilliantly annotated by R. Meir Triebitz were published in 2021-22 by Hakirah. I have published several monographs in Hakirah adding philosophical and mathematical context for the Rav’s writing.
Seems ridiculous but I'd be interested to see the claim
ReplyDeleteCan anyone provide a solution to this problem?
ReplyDeleteIn Yeshayahu 38, chizkiyahu sings the following
יח כִּי לֹא שְׁאוֹל תּוֹדֶךָּ, מָוֶת יְהַלְלֶךָּ; לֹא-יְשַׂבְּרוּ יוֹרְדֵי-בוֹר, אֶל-אֲמִתֶּךָ. 18 For the nether-world cannot praise Thee, death cannot celebrate Thee; they that go down into the pit cannot hope for Thy truth.
Does Isaiah and Hezekiah Tora disagree with Rambam, who says it's all happening in olam haba, and our reward is to sit and praise Hashem and see his Truth?