The present paper is concerned with the vast and complex problem of protecting our natural environment from pollution and destruction, so that we can live in God's world while enjoying its beauty and deriving from it the maximum physical and spiritual benefit.

Creating a man by means of cloning will certainly raise many legal and halakhic questions. But is this sufficient reason to restrain human creativity? Artificial insemination as well as surrogate motherhood also brought many questions, among them questions concerning who is considered the child's father and who is considered the child's mother. But grave questions such as these arise in every field of human endeavor. The emergence of new questions is however not in itself reason to prohibit the creative endeavors (...) that give rise to them. (shrink)