In our science-oriented society, there is only one way to make the Torah relevant again: to furnish scientific proof that it knows what it is talking about. This can be done only by going back to the original Hebrew meaning of the Torah and using scientific means to explore what the Torah really said. This [...]
Prof. Dr. Eli Lasch
II.1 Elohim
Breshit bara Elohim - in the beginning God created. This is the first sentence of the first book of the Torah. This is the moment where, according to the Torah it all started - the reality we know; the reality we can recognize with our senses, and with our tools [...]
Prof. Dr. Eli Lasch
In order to understand the message of the Torah, one must be ready to look at the text in a new light, free of historical prejudices. My Meeting with the Divine did not change me into a fundamentalist and not even into an orthodox Jew. I have seen only too well where [...]
A Speech the PM Should Make on Israel’s 60th Birthday To the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
“My dear friends, it is time we radically revised the very nature of Israel-Diaspora and Israel-American relations. Israel is neither an economic nor a social basket case. We are amongst the 20 most developed [...]
But this was not the last message I received. This is the only explanation I have for the fact that it contains so many brand-new insights. Over the last 2000 years, scholars have studied the Bible very intensively, but what this book contains is to a large extent totally new. Is this really so uncommon? [...]
Born in Germany in 1929, Dr. Lasch fled with his family to Palestine in 1936. Following his medical training in Switzerland, Israel and the USA, where he specialized in pediatrics and public health, he spent three years in West Africa developing systems of child care where none had previously existed. After his return home he [...]