A Souvenir from Heaven On the day that Moses reached heaven to receive the Torah, the angels were not pleased. In fact, they did everything possible to stand in his way. But Moses was determined. And he had help from above. How exactly did Moses reach the heavens? First he climbed to the summit of…
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Chukat 5785: The Torah of Mortals and Machines
Might an obscure ancient ritual that has not been practiced in millennia have relevance for contemporary technology such as artificial intelligence? Let’s consider a curious turn of phrase in Parashat Chukat, “this is the Torah (of) a person who dies” (זאת התורה אדם כי ימות). Numbers 19 describes an unusual ritual to purify a living…