Torah, Science & Ethics
Daat Emet's Pamphlets
Pamphlet 3
a zoological error in the Torah: neither hare (arnevet) nor hyrax (shafan) bring up their cud.
Scientific Errors in Torah
What the Sages Knew About Animals
We will show that the Sages were not expert in the number of pure animals and their strange distinction between
The four elements in Jewish literature
By Prof. Yossi Rivlin. This article shows the imagination of religious people, how they use the science of their times
What the Sages Knew About Fish
We show that Chazal erred in the signs of fish, and so permitted the forbidden.
Religion & Ethics
The Status of Women in Halacha
The woman is treated as an aide and assistant to the man and as such she is disenfranchised in the
The Secular Jew’s Place in Halacha
The treatment of the secular as a criminal Jew; one who has announced his rejection of G-d or the Divine
Violence in the Charedi-Religious Sector
Verbal and physical violence receives a stamp of approval from the Halachic legal system; it is an inevitable result of
Mitzvahs
Circumcision
We will clarify that the religious ceremony, between man and G-d, poses a danger to the infant's life and
Mezuzah
We will show that synagogues, schools, universities…are exempt from having mezuzot.
Prophecy
We will show that prophecy is not a vision of the future, for it is made up.
Torah & Talmud
Weekly Portion
Lech Lecha
Verses in the Torah were written at a later date.
Talmud Issues
We do not live according to the Mishnah
The Talmudic Sages, as interpreters of the Mishnah, distorted and warped the meaning of the Mishnah, just as they did
May you carry in the public domain? It changes from generation to generation
The definition of a public domain in reference to the laws of Shabbat change from generation to generation.
One Who Was Reading in the Torah
The Sages' interpretations of the Mishnah are puzzling and odd.
Torah Text
The Scroll of Esther–A Historical Romance
How a comical story turned into part of the Holy Writ.
A comparison between the modern text of Genesis and the Septuagint
To help complete the picture of the changes to the Scriptural text we present to our readers the Septuagint text
The differences between the Babylonian tradition of the Torah and our text
A table with the differences between the Babylonian Masoretic text and the modern version is brought. In this table
Daily Peppers
Small amounts of chametz in a house
The sages of the Talmud continued to thrash out the topic and raised fears that two pieces of dough, each
