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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Format: 7x10 Paperback, 160 pp.
Language: English
ISBN 13: 978-965-293-077-4
ISBN 10: 965-293-077-6
Publisher: F.R.E.E. Publishing House and SHAMIR