In praise of shame.(social ostracism)

National Review | September 25, 1995| | Copyright

THE LAWS of physics contain many elegant analogies to principles of human behavior. This comes as no surprise to an Orthodox rabbi, who believes that one God created both the physical and human worlds, and the laws that apply to each. The monotheistic traditions, beginning with Judaism, teach that God's act of creation preceded, and transcended, the physical laws that we know today. Without His intervention, the universe remains captive to the third law of thermodynamics: entropy is always increasing. In other words, defeating entropy is a God-like act. While only He can ...

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