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More About Torah & Science from Chabad.orgLetters of the Rebbe about Torah & Science
Friday, May 11, 1956 - Sivan 1, 5716
You wrote that you read in astronomy books that there are stars whose light rays must travel far more than six thousand years until reaching Earth. How, you asked, could that fit with our holy Torah’s position that we are in the year 5716 since Creation?
Wednesday, October 26, 1955 - Cheshvan 10, 5716
Monday, May 14, 1956 - Sivan 4, 5716
Thursday, October 11, 1951 - Tishrei 11, 5712
Creation does not deny the possibility of evolution after that of particular species through various mutations. . .
Wednesday, November 14, 1962 - Cheshvan 17, 5723
I studied science on the university level from 1928–1932 in Berlin, and from 1934–1938 in Paris, and I have tried to follow scientific developments in certain areas ever since.
Tuesday, August 18, 1959 - Av 14, 5719
The conclusions as to the age of the universe reached by various fields within science contradict each other. Scientific researchers were forced to contrive all kinds of ad hoc rationales to explain away these contradictions. . .
Wednesday, May 08, 1963 - Iyar 14, 5723
You begin your letter with a warning that you don’t believe in G-d, Heaven forbid, because you are uncertain as to whether He exists. . .
Wednesday, June 24, 1959 - Sivan 18, 5719
It isn’t a question of logical proof since the facts, the actual events and occurrences, relay a clear and undeniable testimony. . .
Tuesday, June 02, 1959 - Iyar 25, 5719
Is there a convincing proof for the existence of the Creator that could satisfy us as skeptics beyond the faintest shadow of a doubt?
Persons who felt impelled to interpret certain passages in the Torah differently from the time honored traditional interpretation, did so only in the mistaken belief that the Torah view was at variance with science…
Monday, December 25, 1961 - Tevet 18, 5722
Basically the problem has its roots in a misconception of the scientific method or, simply, of what science is.
The whole Torah-versus-science "problem", the Rebbe maintained, is based on a popular misconception as to what science is
Wednesday, June 18, 1952 - Sivan 25, 5712
Parallels that are worlds apart
Tuesday, June 21, 1955 - Tammuz 1, 5715
Medical science discovers the soul
Thursday, November 15, 1962 - Cheshvan 18, 5723
In addition to my letter of yesterday's date, which was confined to a purely scientific discussion, it is this second letter which will express my real approach to you, the Torah approach of one Jew to another
Thursday, May 14, 1964 - Sivan 3, 5724
To say that there is, or can be, “scientific proof” that the earth revolves around the sun is quite an unscientific and uncritical statement. . .
Friday, November 15, 1974 - Kislev 1, 5735
I take it for granted that you will keep your commitments with regard to the practical aspects of your letter. . .
Don’t you realize that we can still be believers and not live 500 years behind the times??
Thursday, March 03, 1960 - Adar 4, 5720
Tuesday, May 20, 1952 - Iyar 25, 5712
Monday, January 11, 1971 - Tevet 14, 5731
Friday, August 27, 1976 - Elul 1, 5736
Monday, June 21, 1965 - Sivan 21, 5725
Sigmund Freud is widely acclaimed as the conceiver of the psychoanalysis theory. Yet perhaps there had already been previous thinkers with these ideas…
Monday, October 09, 1961 - Tishrei 29, 5722
Tuesday, May 16, 1961 - Sivan 1, 5721
Wednesday, November 05, 1975 - Kislev 1, 5736
It is my firm belief that the sun revolves around the earth, as I have also declared publicly on various occasions and in discussion with professors specializing in this field of science.
Wednesday, November 05, 1975 - Kislev 1, 5736
Since about half a century ago, with the introduction of the theory of relativity, the latter has been universally accepted as the basis of modern science. . .
Thursday, October 11, 1951 - Tishrei 11, 5712
My opinion is, as stated in the Torah, that during the Six Days of Creation, G‑d created the Four Kingdoms (minerals, vegetation, animal and man) independently of each other. However, this Creation does not deny possibility of evolution after that of particular species through various mutations.
Sunday, August 23, 1964 - Elul 15, 5724
Upholding the permissibility of the Creation account in Bereishis on scientific grounds "based on my years of scientific study, first at the University of Berlin, and later at Paris."
Thursday, January 30, 1964 - Shevat 16, 5724
Monday, August 07, 1961 - Av 25, 5721
Monday, January 18, 1960 - Tevet 18, 5720
Monday, May 08, 1961 - Iyar 22, 5721
You write about the apparent contradiction between the latest scientific attempts to penetrate outer space, especially reaching the moon, which seems to you to contradict the statement in the Torah, “The Heavens belong to G‑d, and the earth He gave to the children of man."
Tuesday, March 27, 1951 - Adar II 19, 5711
The Torah is the Truth. The purpose of science is to discover Truth. Therefore, any study which contradicts the Torah is not science but the opposite of it. . .
The man wagered that the Rebbe would never make a public fool of himself and announce his belief that the sun revolves around the earth...