The Theological Sources of the Torah and Labor (Torah U’melakha) Yeshivas

Who Wrote the Torah

The issue of the authorship of the Torah is important for at least this one reason: since the book claims to have been written by a certain writer, it is simply a matter of integrity that that claim is verified. If this claim to authorship is not substantiated, then why should we trust what that book says? In short, if the Torah claims to be written by Moshe, and we find that it is, in fact, no...

The Torah code controversy

In this paper we briefly explain what a Torah code is and give an example of one. We show how to calculate the probability of its occurrence in a suitably defined population of texts. We explain how it is possible to misadvertise the computed probabilities, making it seem that the probability of a Torah code is very small. We briefly discuss the controversy and suggest that new more carefully c...

THE TORAH A Modern Commentary

Medicine in the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides

his eighties. In 1835, he married and settled in Paris as a teacher at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, while conducting agricultural experiments with his brother-in-law on an estate in the Alsace, which was sustained economically by revenues from oil-bearing sands. Although McCosh's account of the collaboration with Dumas and the fat controversy with Liebig does not replace that given by...

A Chronology of Torah Cryptography

Sometime during the early part of 1997 the author became aware of the controversial paper “Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis” [Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg, 1994] (WRR). This paper brought to the attention of a wider audience the possibility that the Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) was some kind of cryptographic material. Though this work was countered by a lat...