Scientific thoughts on specific Talmudic passages

Abstract

As part of a daf yomi, each day the group studies one complete page of a specific tractate of the Talmud. The Talmud contains much science, including medicine, biology, chemistry, physics, earth science, and cosmology. At times, it is difficult to comprehend the science of a Talmudic passage. This has lead to much debate and many suggestions in the Torah science literature, trying to elucidate the passage. This article is an attempt to explain some of such Talmud-science passages. However, it should be clearly understood that these explanations are not an attempt to second-guess the explanations offered by Chazal, but rather an attempt to satisfy the questions in my mind