{"id":36407,"date":"2011-08-29T11:10:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T19:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=36407"},"modified":"2011-08-29T13:43:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T21:43:55","slug":"what-if-the-sages-are-wrong-about-scientific-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=36407","title":{"rendered":"What If The Sages Are Wrong About Scientific Facts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/seforim.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/new-writings-from-r-kook-and-assorted.html\">Dr. Marc B. Shapiro writes<\/a>: Neusatz is also explicit that very few aggadot are actually the result of the Sages\u2019 ruah ha-kodesh (p. 32a). He states that Maimonides\u2019 astronomical views in the Mishneh Torah do not come from a holy source, but from the Greeks, and in our day must be rejected (p. 38a). He also acknowledges that at times the Sages\u2019 opinions were based on the best scientific knowledge of their time, which we now know is mistaken (pp. 36a-36b, 38a-38b). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Marc B. Shapiro writes: Neusatz is also explicit that very few aggadot are actually the result of the Sages\u2019 ruah ha-kodesh (p. 32a). He states that Maimonides\u2019 astronomical views in the Mishneh Torah do not come from a holy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=36407\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[19029,29808,13175,817,27655],"class_list":["post-36407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marc-b-shapiro","tag-kodesh","tag-marc-b-shapiro","tag-mishneh-torah","tag-sages","tag-scientific-knowledge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}