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Consider this an unplanned follow-up to Shim’s recent post on Kashrut and science.

From the L’SHMA Archives

Halacha and Science: Sympathies and Strategie (Audio link)

Can Science ever conflict with Halacha? If they do, does our new scientific knowledge change the Halachik practice?
Rabbi Dov Linzer is the Rosh HaYeshiva and Academic Head of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School. He studied for many years at Yeshivat Har Etzion, was a member of Yeshiva University’s Gruss Kollel Elyon, and received his ordination from the Israeli Rabbinate. He is a recipient of the Javits Graduate fellowship, and a doctoral candidate in Religion at Columbia University. He has published Halakha and machshava articles in Torah journals and lectures widely at synagogues and conferences on topics relating to Halakha, Orthodoxy, and modernity. He teaches advanced Halakha in a broad range of areas across all four sections of the Shulchan Aruch – including Kashrut, Ishut and Niddah, and Shabbat and Eruvin. Rabbi Linzer teaches advanced classes in Talmud and a year-long class in Contemporary Challenges of Modern Orthodoxy

Without having actually listened to it yet I get the sense that this lecture probably fits quite nicely with Shim’s post and might even build on things a little. At any rate it certainly sounds interesting, so hopefully I can get to it in the next couple of days.

If anyone else does take the time to give this lecture a listen I’d love to know what you think of it, so please feel free to share your thoughts (as always) in the comment section below.

Have to tip to the fine folks over at Mixed Multitudes for the FYI post.