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“On the Instruction of Experts” Some Halakhic Reflections on Science and the Pandemic

Recent years have seen the eruption of a fierce debate about the nature of truth, authority and verifiability. During these last months, this issue has taken on direct existential urgency. Scholar of the Jewish legal tradition Rabbi Mark Washofsky, Ph.D., offers insights gleaned from within the classical normative texts of that tradition as they relate to a question of life and death – should we listen to the advice of scientific experts?