The Challenge of Creation: Judaism’s Encounter with Science, Cosmology, and Evolution

Heschel draws out the implications of the idea that we rest in memory/imitation of God's primeval rest at the end of Creation.

Jewish tradition and scientific reasoning provide two different and sometimes contradictory sources of truth, and Jewish thinkers throughout the ages have struggled to address these contradictions.

The Jewish position on abortion is nuanced, neither condoning it nor categorically prohibiting it.