Teanack, NJ – Rabbi Natan Slifkin has hiked in Israel, gone on safari in Kenya, whale-watched in the Pacific, scuba-dived in Eilat, and wrestled alligators in California.
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Asked what else has he done that might be called “exciting,” he replied, “What, that’s not enough?! How about defending myself against attacks by scores of distinguished rabbis? That was even scarier than wrestling alligators!”
Three years ago, three of Rabbi’s Slikfin’s books — “The Science of Torah,” “The Camel, the Hare and the Hyrax,” and “Mysterious Creatures: Intriguing Torah Enigmas of Natural and Unnatural History” — were banned by several rabbis in the United States and Israel on the grounds of heresy.
“The Science of Torah” — which has been expanded, retitled “The Challenge of Creation: Judaism’s Encounter with Science, Cosmology and Evolution,” and reissued last year — deals with the age of the universe and evolution; “The Camel, the Hare and the Hyrax” with the signs of kosher animals; and “Mysterious Creatures” with the conflicts between the Talmud and zoology.
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>He is very intelligent
No one said he isn’t. But so were Spinoza and Lenin and Trotsky and a whole slew of other apikursim.
I guess thats why it says
“kol she’chachmoso kodom l’yiras cheto….”
>there were some real intelligent rabbis involved like rav Weintraub from bnei brak
He’s the Rav who endorsed Facilitated Communication! (which was later exposed as a fraud by Mishpacha magazine)
Hello
I watched & listened to him speak in the YI yesterday before mincha. While not a very polished orator, he is brilliant young man who has an understanding of our traditions,our present and the future. He is able to think while standing and his insight of our mesorah and the human condition surpases that of men twice his age. He is only about 32
“The rabbi’s banned it because they can’t handle someone more knowledgeable than them”
there was much more to it than just that; there were some real intelligent rabbis involved like rav Weintraub from bnei brak; rav Feldman from Baltimore…….
He is very intelligent and I thoroughly enjoy his books. The rabbi’s banned it because they can’t handle someone more knowledgeable than them.
“Asked what else has he done that might be called “exciting,” he replied, “What, that’s not enough?! How about defending myself against attacks by scores of distinguished rabbis? That was even scarier than wrestling alligators!”
…listen; it was the best publicity he was able to get c’mon !!!
(i would never have read his stuff if not that!)