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From the Chicken Coop to the Creator: Torah Wisdom Triumphs Over ‘Survival of the Fittest’
At first glance, the humble chicken seems an unlikely candidate for a philosophical revolution. A creature at the very bottom of the food chain—defenseless, slow, and seemingly destined for extinction in a “red in tooth and claw” world—it nonetheless has persisted in the billions. This simple observation cuts to the…
Repentance or Happenstance?
In the opening chapters of Hilchot Ta’aniyot (The Laws of Fasts), the Rambam (Maimonides) codifies a fundamental principle of Jewish existence: It is a positive commandment of the Torah, he writes, to cry out and sound the trumpets for any trouble that strikes the community. Whether it be a plague,…