Restore Torah to western education! 
Saturday, May 19, 2007, 10:22 AM
Been reading and teaching a bit from Daniel and other parts of the Bible. Struck by the wisdoms in the stories. How to square your conscience with worshipping God and Rimmon as Naaman had to? (Answer: clear it with your spiritual guru, your shrink.) How to use insider knowledge to make a million legally, as Elisha’s servant was caught doing? (Answer: register it as a charity in advance. Or catch financial leprosy.) How to get God to listen to you? (Answer: sing along with Psalm 14 and end on the happy bits.)
The revelation for me in this is that the enlightenment may have pushed scientists at work to seek evidence for their theories, but the wisdoms of millennia are encoded in the Torah onwards. Foolish is anyone who ignores these lessons of history. Pork is ok now we have found the tape worm. But coveting is not yet seen as the moloch of our consumerist temples. When will Jerusalem learn that one?


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