Womb as Paradise Lost

Womb as Paradise Lost – Foetal Programming
Thetic Part 2 – Prolegomena
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time. Here Martin Buber and the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas
are in place.
Enigma
Before I continue with a deepened description of what the Good Book of
ancient Israel says about medicine, it is necessary to hear a rabbi who,
through an enigma, brought his students to the insight that the Jewish Torah
is not about organised religion, but about life in all its aspects, including
sciences:
One day a Jewish rabbi said to his students:
What do you consider to be the greatest catastrophe that has befallen the
Jewish people in its history?
The four hundred years of slavery in Egypt, said the first student.
No! Replied the master.
The destruction of the Temple, suggested another.
No! Replied the master.
The Exile, offered a third student.
No! Replied the master.
The Shoah (Holocaust), said a fourth.
No! Replied the master; it is neither the Shoah, nor the Exile, not the destruction
of the Temple, nor slavery.
We don’t see it, admitted his students in unison.
The greatest catastrophe that has befallen the Jewish people, instructed the
rabbi, was when the Torah became a religion. 122
122 Ouaknin, Marc-Alain, Les Dix Commendements, édition du Seuil 1999, page 18.