Reply To: The world is in a state of Geula- and don’t misunderstand us!

Science post 2:
Now just to add there were times when the chachamim and Rabbonim did and do Base their psakim on doctors research instead of their own knowledge of science directly from Torah, and in that case, as the science changes so can the psak. Not negating that.

And there are obvious things that do seem to contradict sometimes and do need to be explained.

For example I asked a lubavitcher scientist to e explain how could it be that the Alter Rebbe writes in Tanya (and he quotes a posuk there) that the right ventricle has no blood when it is clearly evident that it does – not as an abstract scientific theory etc. but we see it all the time as doctors do open heart surgery etc so its not made up?

So in that case he gave a satisfactory answer- that the blood referred to in the Posuk and discussed by the Alter Rebbe was oxygenated blood – as the Alter Rebbe was discussing lifeblood that gives life to the body. And that is only in the left ventricle whereas the right ventricle contains deoxygenated blood.

But the rule of thumb for any Jew should be that Torah is the absolute truth and if science contradicts, than its either wrong or the contradiction is in fact a misunderstanding.