This semester, I'm taking a class in Jewish biomedical ethics at a local rabbinical school. (bookpage.com)
On Monday, organizers said a New Yorker would open the event as well: Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik, the scion of one of the most prominent rabbinical families in modern Jewish history, and a man who is considered a rising, if controversial, star in the Orthodox community. (wsj.com)
In later rabbinical writings the Torah is considered to be created before all things and used as a pattern on which God created the world. (faith.org.uk)