{"id":241,"date":"2011-03-22T20:17:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T20:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/?p=241"},"modified":"2011-03-22T20:17:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T20:17:28","slug":"certain-jewish-rules-are-not-to-be-followed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/belief\/logic\/certain-jewish-rules-are-not-to-be-followed\/","title":{"rendered":"Certain Jewish Rules Are Not To Be Followed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let us build a small mathematical model for Judaism. Though it is full of Mitzvah’s<\/em>, regultaions and edicts, the mathematicians among us will notice immediately that even if those are many, there is a finite<\/em> amount of them. Altogether, we shall name them ‘rules’ and call the set of rules by the letter P<\/strong><\/em>. Since it is finite, we can assign sequence numbers to its members (the rules), 1<\/strong><\/em> through n<\/strong><\/em>, thus turning the set into a “sequence” of rules.<\/p>\n

Note two specific members of this sequence. First, there is the famous prominent rule that deals generally with observing the Sabbath – let us assume it has the sequence number i<\/strong><\/em>. Then, there is another famous rule delaing with saving the life of a jew – let us assume it has the sequence number j<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

In order to enrich our model a little bit, we note that all those rules carry with them some considerable importance, at least from a religious point of view, since God is supposedly checking us on a daily basis for keeping them. At this stage of the model we still do not know the amount of importance assigned to each rule, so let us use a mathematical function called v<\/strong><\/em> to mark it. For example: v(j)<\/strong><\/em> is the importance of the rule that deals with saving lives.<\/p>\n

Now let us remember some Jewish statements about the importance of these rules. One of them claims that “saving a life overrides keeping the Sabbath”. Using our notation:<\/p>\n

(1) v(j) > v(i)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Another famous statement claims that “observing the Sabbath is equivalent to all the other rules combined”. Using our notation:<\/p>\n

(2) v(i) = SUM [k≠i] v(k)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Now, from joining (1) and (2) together we conclude:<\/p>\n

(3) v(j) > SUM [k≠i] v(k)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Since j≠i<\/strong><\/em>, we can subtract v(j)<\/strong><\/em> from both sides and get:<\/p>\n

(4) 0 > SUM [k≠i,j] v(k)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Thus we arrived at a partial sequence of P<\/strong><\/em>, which is not empty, and whose sum of members’ importance is negative. Hence there exists at least one member of P<\/strong><\/em>, call it m<\/strong><\/em>, for which:<\/p>\n

(5) v(m) < 0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Or, using the terms of our model, it is important not<\/em> to follow the religious rule number m<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

You have been warned!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let us build a small mathematical model for Judaism. Though it is full of Mitzvah’s, regultaions and edicts, the mathematicians among us will notice immediately that even if those are many, there is a finite amount of them. Altogether, we shall name them ‘rules’ and call the set of rules by the letter P. Since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judaism","category-logic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}