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Connection

Connection

Ever used an air pump to inflate a bicycle tire or a basketball? When you push down on the pump handle, you get the sensation that the pump is pushing back. Well, of course, it is. In the middle of the seventh century, the English scientist Robert Hooke developed an explanation for such behavior. He predicted that there were particles in nature that are in constant motion. The particles are the molecules of the air. Their motion causes them to bump into the walls of their container, such as a ba


Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz

Prayer

Prayer

Prayer Master of the Universe, grant me the ability to be alone; may it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grass – among all growing things – and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer, to talk with the One to whom I belong. May I express there everything in my heart, and may all the foliage of the field – all grasses, trees, and plants – awake at my coming, to send the powers of their life into the words of my prayer so that my prayer and speech are made whole throu


Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz

The Inexistence of the Universe

The Inexistence of the Universe

The Inexistence of the Universe Groping for a transcendent word in a vocabulary generated by our physical lives, we seize upon “light.” Light is our metaphor for the incorporeal, the spiritual, the Divine. We speak of an era of “enlightenment” dispelling dark ages of ignorance and ignominy, of a “ray” of hope penetrating the blackness of despair, of the Divine “light” that bathes the virtuous soul. Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Courtesy of MeaningfulLife.com by Simon


Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz

Age of the Universe

Age of the Universe

by Dr. Gerald Schroeder According to a possible reading of ancient commentators' description of God and nature, the world may be simultaneously young and old. One of the most obvious perceived contradictions between Torah and science is the age of the universe. Is it billions of years old, like scientific data, or is it thousands of years, like Biblical data? When we add up the generations of the Bible, we come to 5700-plus years. Whereas, data from the Hubble telescope or from the land based


Zalman Kravitz

Zalman Kravitz