Moshe Tendler saw the hand of God under the microscope.

The dangers of ignoring a medieval tradition.

A cosmic puzzle best left unsolved.

Blinded by knowledge.

Stumbling into the great ditch.

Azariah de’ Rossi, Modern Orthodox rabbi?

And of scientism.

Judaism and the “last of the magicians.”

A Jewish physicist’s theological reflections.

A light unto the nations.

Smug secularism, curiosity, and the Enlightenment.

And the 17th-century Spanish book that influenced it.

The medieval church helped science more than it repressed it.