Q&A: The Tetragrammaton inside DNA
The Tetragrammaton inside DNA
Question
Hello Honored Rabbi,
What is your opinion of Dr. Yeshayahu Rubinstein’s discovery that he found the Tetragrammaton in the genetic code?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwYUPSe5ozQ [and more online].
Does this sound credible, and does it tell us anything?
Answer
It sounds very dubious to me. I know Rabbi Rubinstein as a nice and intelligent person. He hasn’t been at the Weizmann Institute for some thirty years already, and as far as I remember, even back then he was involved in veterinary medicine (though perhaps I’m mistaken).
In general, it’s hard for me to believe that even if this is true, he is the one who discovered it. If so, he should have won scientific prizes for it (quite apart from the spacing issue—just for the very discovery of these locations. It sounds to me like a very foundational discovery in molecular biology).
See several questions raised here:
Discussion on Answer
Maybe it got dropped because it was too similar. 🙂 That’s the link I gave in the message above yours.
“Dubious” is of course a polite way of saying “completely and utterly wrong” (as every undergraduate biology student knows).
*polite
It would be appropriate to judge Rabbi Rubinstein favorably. Residents of Rehovot remember the terrible car accident on the eve of Yom Kippur in which Rabbi Rubinstein nearly died. He was completely shattered, and they had given up on him. He was hospitalized for months. Miraculously, he recovered. The videos are apparently from the period afterward (I’m not certain). And maybe—and I offer this as a hypothesis—Rabbi Rubinstein suffered head trauma to some degree or another. Perhaps he invents memories or hallucinates and the like. Unfortunately, there are far worse phenomena than these (see the book Hallucinations or The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks). All that remains is to see the positive side: he imagines he found “TATA” in DNA, and if only we too might be found there.
Have you ever seen anything this bombastic that actually turned out to be true, or is all the pseudoscience in the Hidabroot genre always fake?
Gil, it seems to me that the videos really are from the period afterward, and of course one can’t judge someone who suffered a severe head injury and confuses real memories with false ones.
Indeed. I debated whether to raise that possibility (and I also don’t know what his condition is today).
All these discoveries are very ridiculous. Would all the people who believe in these things accept scientific discoveries when they were against the Torah? It isn’t serious. And if the spacings had formed the word “Satan,” would they also have published it with such enthusiasm? It’s hard for me to believe that a serious scientist could be such a fool.
Trying again. Is it possible you can’t post a comment that’s only a link?