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Science and Torah: Ancient Wisdom for Healing the Earth – with Rabbi Natan Margalit

Science and Torah: Ancient Wisdom for Healing the Earth – with Rabbi Natan Margalit

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Sep 29, 2022
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Our world faces many serious and deadly problems: extreme climate change, increasing threats to democracy worldwide, and critical levels of isolation and disconnection experienced by excessive internet and social media use. Science and technology can help in healing the earth but taken alone they are not sufficient. What ancient wisdom is lacking from our traditional scientific approach? 

Rabbi Natan Margalit, the author of the newly released book, The Pearl and the Flame, has an answer. The problem, he believes, is not understanding the connectedness of all things—people, plants, animals, and the natural world. His solution is to integrate our vast and valuable scientific knowledge about complex systems with the ancient wisdom of the Torah (the Hebrew Bible).  

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