Maimonides

Universal Evil: Does it Exist? When you google "definition of evil", you will get about 65 million search results in less than a third of a second. This suggests to us that there are many definitions of evil and that evil exists in many forms. However, is there evil that is universal? The notion of universal evil is interesting. For evil to be universal, it has to be fundamental not situational, innate not cultural. Evil comes in many forms. There is not one clear definition of evil, it…

The argument from within the context is about the symbolic content and the literal content. Orthodox Jews are monotheistic they only believe in one God; Their beliefs are guided by the 13 principles of Judaism derived by Jewish Scholar Rabbi Moses Maimonides (Orthodox Jews: Beliefs and Concepts, 2014). In order to live consistent with the Torah, the Jewish book of faith, one must follow these principles. They believe Adam had free will even prior to the sin, otherwise he would not have been…

not enough to end poverty. If you look at the chart since 1965, it has been a steady rate between ten and fifteen present. Look at this saying “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” (Maimonides). We are giving people a fish every day. We need to be doing is teaching people how to fish or in today’s world we need to be teaching them how to get jobs and take care of themselves. WHAT SHOULD IT BE? The poverty should be where everyone can…

providers to treat them dropped (Manuel, 2013). Of the most affected hospitals, Beth Israel in lower Manhattan, recorded a 69 percent increase in psychiatric emergency room patients (Bernstein, 2012). Dr. Andrew Kolodny, the chairman of psychiatry at Maimonides Medical Center remarked: Triage has reached a different level: You have to get sicker to get in. Not only is there decreased capacity, there’s increased demand because the storm or the loss of residences has been a stressor for mental…

be divine law. The Torah provides the rationale for Jewish ethics, including bioethics. The text however, is open to varied interpretations. While the Tanakh, the Mishnah and the Talmud are respected as sacred texts, great teachers such as Moses Maimonides and Rabbi Karo are considered their greatest interpreters and have contributed…

Much research and studies have been done on the causes of dreams and the reasons why we dream about certain events or people. Though a lot of research has been done, scientists have yet to come up with a definitive cause of the ideas our complex brains come up with during sleep. The men and women who lived during the events of the Holocaust do not need a sleep study done on the in order to know what causes their nightmares, nor do they need scientists to hypothesize and determine the cause.…

the Beadle, and he becomes almost a replacement for Mr. Wiesel. Moshe begins Elie’s studies of the cabbala, also known as the Zohar. Elie had tried asking his father before, but his father refused, insisting that Elie “’…too young…’” and quoted Maimonides saying “’…it was only at thirty that one had…

One of the examples in which the problem of evil is visible in the Judaic tradition is when Moses failed to reach the promised Land of Canaan. Moses led God’s people for many years, but when the Israelites were in the wilderness they broke the promise specified by God. As punishment, God did not lead them straight to the promised land; their short pilgrimage turned into forty years of wandering in the desert, and in the end, Moses himself broke God’s law and did not enter into the promised land.…

Sabrina Wu 7/9/15 Biology Ability to Perceive Through Time Biology Summer Assignment Precognition is the gain of knowledge obtained through extrasensory means. The majority of precognitive experiences come from extrasensory perception (ESP), also known as the sixth sense. ESP uses methods such as card reading and dreams. It can also be experienced through trance, channeling, and mediumship. Trace and mediumship are forms of spirit communication. A person in trance condition is when a spirit…

later moved to the Studien Generale, a newly founded university in Naples. At this university, he had access to Petrus de Ibernia, who aside from teaching him geometry, astronomy, and music, taught him the philosophies of Aristotle, Averroes, and Maimonides. In Outliers, Gladwell points out that people who have more time to spend studying or practicing a specific set of skills, tend to have that time because of outside forces. They don’t have the need to work a job, or raise children, or support…