Science & Technology

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...

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...

Everything was created as a means to know G‑d. Every discovery we have ever made, each of our inventions, was planted here in the six days of creation in order that we utilize it for a G‑dly purpose. Likutei Sichot, vol. 15, Noach 2.

In the nineteenth century, many scientists had no use for G‑d. Instead, they worshipped a tight chain of cause and effect that left no room for miracles, providence or prophecy. But then the scientist looked into the atom, and the wonder of the universe o...