Well, isn't this interesting?
During my chassidus (the inner secrets of Judaism, the way G-dliness works in/creates the world, that kind of stuff. A little hard to explain on one foot.) class, the way the brain/heart/liver work together was brought as both an example and a lesson on how the teachings reflect both on the large (cosmic, meta-cosmic, maybe?) and the small (the body). And not a basic explanation, either ("Well, the heart's a big pump, and..."). Full, in-depth descriptions of how and what it does.
And I found myself learning things about the way the body works that I'd never learnt in science class. From 'religious studies'.
Sometimes I wonder if doctors really understand things better that the old men who sit around and study old dusty volumes of the Talmud...
Posted by adam at July 29, 2003 11:08 PM