By Rabbi Norman Lamm, zt’l This week’s Sidra tells of the first business transaction recorded in History. It involves a not-too-complicated affair, but the transaction is nevertheless an interesting one. Sarah had died, and Abraham was looking for a burial ground. He approached the Bnei Cheiss, the Hittites, and asked them to sell him the […]
By Rabbi Norman Lamm, zt’l October 3, 1964 At the beginning of his immortal Guide for the Perplexed (Part I, Chapter 2), Maimonides records a question that was posed to him concerning the story of Adam and Eve. These first two humans were given a single commandment by G-d: not to eat of the fruit of […]
Hopefully, normative Judaism accepts the possibility and even likelihood that there may be varying types of intelligent species and civilizations in the universe.
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