The Rebbe and the New Science of Uncertainty
The convergence of Torah & science in the thought of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
| Topics: | Tzimtzum, Lubavitcher Rebbe, Torah & Science |
Eli Rubin, a contributing editor at Chabad.org, is the author of Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism (forthcoming from Stanford University Press). He was a co-author of Social Vision: The Lubavitcher Rebbe's Transformative Paradigm for the World (Herder and Herder, 2019). He studied Chassidic literature and Jewish Law at the Rabbinical College of America and at Yeshivot in the UK, the US and Australia, and received his PhD from the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London.
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In 5753 Dr. Naftali Berg told me the following: (shortened due to space limitations)
Dr. Berg had been asked to make a lecture about science and Torah. He prepared a lecture about how Quantum Theory has brought science into agreement with Torah. He brought the lecture notes to the Rebbe.
The Rebbe told him to change the lecture because the current Quantum Theory is mistaken (maybe I missing a nuance). The Rebbe explained that according to the Torah there are absolute miracles impossible according to nature which contradicts Quantum theory's claims that all states of matter are probabilities. Thus, the sea turning into a solid wall and back is incredibly unlikely but possible, which is in disagreement with the Torah.
Quantum theory has never been proven; it still to this day exists only as theory.
The only way to approach this life is: The Torah is the truth; everything else is subject to proof.
"In 5753 Dr. Naftali Berg told me..."
My late Bible Chronologist friend believed he had "scientifically proven" based on the Torah, that we are in the year 6024 AM, instead of 5784 AM.
What difference would that make, if he is correct?