Category — Evolution

Rabbi Natan Slifkin has weighed in on our conversation about the existence of a half dirt, half flesh mouse, an animal Rabbi Chaim Salenger of Ohr Somayach has asserted that I cannot PROVE did not exist.

In response to Rabbi Chaim Salenger’s suggestion that Rabbi Slifkin had made a “mistake” (one of many), Rabbi Slifkin has weighed in on the discussion.

The funny thing is that Rabbi Salenger thinks he is presenting the view of Rav Aharon Feldman, but in fact nothing could be further from the truth. R. Salenger states that spontaneous generation is “patently and obviously absurd” but that Chazal did not believe in it; when they wrote about the mouse that is half flesh and half-dirt, it was a Midrashic statement that must be interpreted allegorically.

But this is not Rav Feldman’s position, and with good reason. The discussion about the mouse is not a Midrash or an aggadata – it is a Mishnah, and a halachah. [Read more →]

And despite pleas, no mention of Tropper’s former target, Rabbi Slifkin the Old Earth (Gedoylim forbid!) rabbi

Buried in the comments section (because the penguins think we are lazy), Rabbi Shafran has some fighting words in defense of The Great Ones’ (Gedolim) decision to back the threesome rabbi, Leib Tropper, who seeks to enforce the True Torah belief that the world is less than 6,000 years old, and that gentile women need greater scrutiny in joining the tribe (unless the offer favors to Tropper).
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