Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Adin Steinsaltz
Born: July 11, 1937
Died: August 7, 2020 (aged 83)
Bio: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz or Adin Even Yisrael was a teacher, philosopher, social critic, and spiritual mentor, who has been hailed by Time magazine as a "once-in-a-millennium scholar". He devoted his life to making the Talmud accessible to all Jews.
Known for:
- The thirteen petalled rose (2010)
- Essential Talmud (2003)
- A Guide to Jewish Prayer (2000)
- My Rebbe (2014)