The talmudic maxim "to save one life is tantamount to saving a whole world" (Sanhedrin 37a) indicates that the value of human life is infinite. A fraction of infinity is stil infinity. Nothing in this world is of higher value or greater ethical import than human life. Even Torah commandments of the Holy One, blessed be He, must give way to the higher value of preserving human life. The biblical...

Among the wide-spectrum contribution of the Rambam - the Maimonides - in philosophy to the word and to Judaism are his ideas on the body and on the soul and on the relations between them. His major approaches in these subjects are the following: 1) The body is the home of the soul, and the soul guides the body. That means the body and the soul are one unit. 2) The soul has five virtual parts. E...

Lumbar Spinal Stenosis (LSS) is one of the most common spinal pathologies in the United States. LSS is a degenerative spine disorder that affects primarily people over the age of 50 and is one of the most common sine diagnoses requiring surgical intervention in this age group. This article aims to summarize the presentation, examination, work up, and management of the patient with LSS as well a...

chapter. Chapters on human anatomy, physiology, and pathology with obstetrics and the whole area of gynaecology follow. Sexual relations are dealt with in chapters 6 and 7 and Maimonides' beautiful description of the relationship between a man and his wife is given in translation from the treatise on marriage Eeshuth (15:19 & 20) on p. 178. Death and Jewish customs observed in connexion with it...

even work on nursing units to directly address production and dosepreparation issues related to medications. Pharmacists will no longer be required to enter orders at a location distant from patients, and they will have limited need to spend hours in the library researching a particular case so that they can assist in designing the best possible medication regimen for the patient. All the knowl...

Einstein's philosophy of physics (as clarified by Fine, Howard, and Held) was predicated on his Trennungsprinzip, a combination of separability and locality, without which he believed objectification, and thereby " physical thought " and " physical laws " , to be impossible. Bohr's philosophy (as elucidated by Hooker, Scheibe, Folse, Howard, Held, and others), on the other hand, was grounded in...

In a recent Stanford Law Review article, Ayres and Bulow [1] propose a radical anonymity-based solution to disrupt the “market” for monetary influence in political campaigns. To realize their proposal, we propose new cryptographic protocols for commital deniable proofs and deniable payment schemes. “[T]here is little reason to doubt that sometimes large contributions will work actual corruption...