The Middle Way

NYT–As if it were not complicated enough, the debate over health care in Congress is becoming a battlefield in the fight over abortion.

People like to say that pregnancy is either you are or you are not, but that is not true–there is a middle way corroborated by both science and Torah. The law of the Torah from the very beginning of talmudic teachings is the child begins 41 days after conception and science notes a sudden change in the embryo at 41 days.

The Cabala explains how there must be a space between the soul and body in order to allow the transference of essence into form. The sun can only deliver his light by breaking the oneness of light into individual photons. Even the light from God undergoes a similar process.

The Four Letter Name of God YHVH which portrays the past, present and future as one is interrupted by the Name Elohim the basis for nature; within nature is replicated the YHVH from the four divisions in the heavens to the four elements–the human being is the final manifestation of the YHVH imbued with freedom of choice.

The forty days from conception of a child is when the woman is allowed to chose whether or not to have a child without it being an abortion.