Torah & Science

Mind Over Matter is a compilation of freely translated talks, discourses and letters on science, technology and medicine from the Rebbe. It covers such diverse topics as proof of the Creator, origin of the species, aviation, fate vs. freedom, geometry, me...

In the traditional view of the Bible, the world is a mere five and a half thousand years old and was created in six days. Surely modern science proves that the world is billions of years old and man evolved through a process of evolution, thus laying to r...

The Rebbe studied both sciences and humanities at the University of Berlin and at the Sorbonne. Throughout the nineteenth century and for most of the twentieth, rabbis dealt with the "challenge of science." Generally, their approach was the classic one of...

Everything G-d created in His world He created to express His glory -- Mishne Avot, 6:11 The computer age and the information revolution have given all of us enormous power and the ability to reach virtually anyone at any time. Yes, technology allows us t...

No one has ever seen a particle or a wave of gravity. Furthermore, the very notion of gravity is mystifying: masses light years apart with nothing between them, affecting each other’s movement! Yet we all accept there must be a cause behind the phenomena ...

The scientist’s understanding begins from the outside and attempts to work in—from the bottom up. He begins with subjective empiricism and attempts to deduce an objective model. The wisdom of Torah begins from the inside and works its way out—from the top...

Modern physics has brought us to a realization of the oneness of our universe, from which we may better grasp the Oneness of its Creator: It was once thought that each of the forces of nature is an isolated force, and that matter is a composite of many va...

Communication technologies have provided us a metaphor to comprehend how One Being can perceive all things in a single instance. It makes you wonder how previous generations could possibly have understood such things. Likutei Sichot, vol. 15, Noach 2.

More than 1,700 years in advance, the author of the Zohar predicted a revolution of science and technology around the year 1840. There he describes the fountains of wisdom bursting forth from the ground and flooding the earth—all in preparation for an era...

A young biologist was working at NASA on a project to find life on Mars. He asked the Rebbe, “Is this okay? Some religions say we shouldn’t search. After all, the Bible doesn’t say anything about life on Mars.” The Rebbe replied, “Professor Greene, you sh...