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charliehall
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“Rabbi Meiselmann’s actual Ph.D may be in mathematics but his actual curriculum included many other subjects (that’s what goes on in any university)”

As others have noted, graduate study does not generally include study in other fields, other than possibly a foreign language. I looked up MIT’s requirements for a PhD and there is no non-Mathematics coursework except for Applied Mathematics students, which Rabbi Dr. Meiselman was not. And Mathematics is not Science.

“R’Meiselmann knows what he wa told by his Rebbi in the private one on one study sessions”

Rabbi Dr. Meiselman has been found to have distorted Rav Soloveitchik’s views by no less a figure than The Rav’s translator Prof. Lawrence Kaplan. Rabbi Dr. Meiselman has even made the outlandish claim that The Rav agreed with his uncle the Brisker Rav on Zionism!