Science Only Knows “What”

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Mendel Kessin’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

After three years when they started the war, when you had the miracle of the candles, imagine if they walked over to a Greek scientist and they said to him, "Well, what do you think we should do?" "Well, how much oil do you have?" The scientists would say, "Well, we have enough oil for one day to burn." So, the scientist would say, "Well, how many days do you need to get new oil?" Well, we need eight days to get new oil. Should we burn this oil? And maybe it's going to burn for eight days. So, the scientists will say, "Excuse me, are you okay? Oil which can only burn one day

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1. 0:00After three years when they started the war, when you had the miracle of the candles,…
2. 0:31okay? Oil which can only burn one day cannot have the combustibility to burn eight days.…
3. 1:01the why of science. They just know the what. The answer to the why is God's…

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