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Jul 20, 2017

Humans are Just Bigger Cats (or Smaller Elephants)

Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman

Every mammal, big or small, has the same number of heartbeats in its life. I wondered whether the same laws of “scaling” would apply to the Jewish community.