Once again we are pleased to present Prof. Dr. Eli Lasch and his views on the Torah/Bible.
The first part of the record of the third day is incomprehensible for the modern man.
During that day, the process of separation and differentiation comes to an end. Here God separated between water and dry land. After the end [...]
II.4 Love and Creation
There exists also another way to describe the process of creation.
Both the hermetic and the kabbalistic philosophies claim that everything in our world has a masculine and a feminine pole. From this point of view, the head which is the carrier of information is the masculine pole, while the house, the container, [...]
II.3 The Head in the House
This is illustrated by the first word of the book of Genesis: Breshit – translated as “in the beginning”. The question poses itself: The beginning of what? And the Torah continues: of the creation of Heaven and Earth. The next question to ask ourselves is: Created out of what? The [...]
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 [...]