Torah, Science & Ethics
Daat Emet's Pamphlets
Pamphlet 7
discussion of Chazal's error regarding the anatomy of women's reproductive systems, which led them to make erroneous Halachic rulings
Scientific Errors in Torah
Archeological Findings Help Determine the Era in which the Torah Was Written
An illustrative excerpt from the book Reishit Yisrael by Prof. Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silverman.
The four elements in Jewish literature
By Prof. Yossi Rivlin. This article shows the imagination of religious people, how they use the science of their times
How to measure time; what are the ages of rocks and geological sites?
By Prof. Oded Navon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Institute of Earth Sciences, and Dr. Mordechai Stein, a researcher at the
Religion & Ethics
Violence in the Charedi-Religious Sector
Verbal and physical violence receives a stamp of approval from the Halachic legal system; it is an inevitable result of
The Secular Jew’s Place in Halacha
The treatment of the secular as a criminal Jew; one who has announced his rejection of G-d or the Divine
How the Charedi Deal with Exile Under Democratic Regimes
A frightening summary of a book written by a Charedi scholar, suggesting how the "G-d fearing Jew" can confront
Mitzvahs
Circumcision
We will clarify that the religious ceremony, between man and G-d, poses a danger to the infant's life and
Mezuzah
We will show that synagogues, schools, universities…are exempt from having mezuzot.
Shemita
We will show that determining the sabbatical year (the seventh year) was done based on Chazal's erroneous view of historical
Torah & Talmud
Weekly Portion
Lech Lecha
Verses in the Torah were written at a later date.
Talmud Issues
Each generation and its own Holy Writ
The Holy Writ was finalized in the first centuries CE according to arbitrary decisions by the Sages.
Odd Scholarship–The Amoraim and the reasons for the halachot in the Mishna
The Sages of the Talmud find odd explanations for halachot, build fantastical conjecturers, and contradict themselves.
Halachic Times
With the development of astronomy, the Halachic determination of times has become ridiculous and erroneous.
Torah Text
On Letter Skips in the Torah
We will show that thousands of letters were changed over the course of generations, a matter which did not stop
The differences between the Babylonian tradition of the Torah and our text
A table with the differences between the Babylonian Masoretic text and the modern version is brought. In this table
The Scroll of Esther–A Historical Romance
How a comical story turned into part of the Holy Writ.
Daily Peppers
The sperm of a Jewish man which issues from the womb of a gentile woman or from the womb of an animal
A Jewish man’s seminal fluid is impure and anyone who touches it is impure. To be purified, the one who
