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...environment? To some thinkers, the Oldham experiment poses no problems. Says Rabbi Seymour Siegel, professor of ethics at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary: "The Browns were trying to obey the commandment to have children. When nature does not permit conception, it is desirable to try to outwit nature. The Talmud teaches that God desires man's cooperation." For many others, in vitro fertilization is fraught with moral dangers. British Geneticist Robert J. Berry, a consultant to a board set up by the Church of England to consider issues like the one raised by the Brown baby, accepts the procedures...
Physical remains of Herod's masterpiece are scarce. But they tend to support descriptions in the four surviving written sources from approximately the same period: the Gospels and the biblical book of Acts; the part of the Jewish Talmud called the Mishnah; and the histories of Flavius Josephus, a Jewish priest and commander turned Roman military aide who lived in the years A.D. 30 to A.D. 100. For instance, a stone found later near the Temple's likely site was inscribed with the words TO THE PLACE OF TRUMPETING, which corroborate Josephus' description of the signal for the beginning...
This quote likely refers to the line in the Talmud (Megillah 7b) that is frequently used by gleeful college students who seek to justify self-destructive excesses through appeal to religious texts...
These gleeful students would do well to keep on reading, because the Talmud text immediately continues...
...editors of the Talmud followed Rava's one-liner with this story in order to warn against the dangers of excessive alcohol use and to express strong ambivalence or even opposition to Rava's line itself. Thus, to portray Judaism as unequivocally alcohol-friendly is a distortion of the Jewish tradition...