Rabbi Michoel Reach
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Rabbi Michoel Reach was a member in the Yeshiva Derech Chaim
Kollel in Brooklyn, NY and the Ner Israel Rabbinical College in
Baltimore, MD for many years. He has taught advanced classes on the
Chumash (Five books of Moses) for three years in Baltimore and is the
author of a not yet published book on Chumash. He also has a Bachelors
in Physics and Math from the California Institute of Technology and a
PhD in Math from the University of California Berkeley with a
Dissertation on the Recursion relation for K-Soliton solutions to the
Schroedinger Equation. He is presently a database consultant for the
Pathology Data Systems Department for the Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine.
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Why believe Moses more than Jesus or Mohammad?
If Jesus wasn’t the Christ as He claimed to be, then who was he? Answer: It’s hard to answer this kind of question, because you come into it with a set of assumptions that I think are very different from…
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Plague of the First Born
Why is the Plague of the First Born males referred to as “makas b’choros” (i.e. feminine form) since it was the first born Egyptian MALES who were killed? Everywhere in the Torah and I think in Tanach, the plural of…
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Authority of the Talmud
My question is, that the Talmud is considered divine. Yet the Talmud is a progression of Rabbinic interpretation. Even the name “Living Torah” the idea of a document that brings the Torah to every situation. How can the Talmud be…
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Worrying about money
I was reading either Birnbaum’s Mishne Torah or Ganzfried-Goldin’s Kitzur Shulchan Arukh and I remember seeing something to the effect that we shouldn’t worry about money. I’d like to know if there is-or isn’t- such a law, what is it,…
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Genesis – overview
I would like to know the importance, teachings, and meanings of Genesis, and how it would effect a Jew’s attitude towards the world today inc. relationship with G-d, with one another, with the environment, reward and punishment etc. Thank you…
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Isaiah
I am doing a report on Isaiah and I need facts. hear some i need: What values were most important to him? What were some memorable things he did? What difference did he make to Jews today? Hi! Thank you…
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Forbidden Fruit and Creation
When G-d planted the Grape Vine (Not Apple) in the Garden of Eden. G_d had to know it would be eaten over time. Why was it considered a sin and why were they expelled from Eden. What did G-d what…
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Hell and Satan
Is Satan mentioned in the Torah? And do we as Jews believe in satan/hell? Answer: Satan is mentioned in the Bible, see the first few chapters of Job (and a few other places). However, it’s clear in the verses I…
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Torah Numbers in Base 10
Why are numbers in the Torah (= in Biblical Hebrew) in base ten? (I.e., why are they represented in multiples of ten, like 127, one times ten squared plus two times ten plus seven, rather than calling that same number…