When Science Meets Scripture: Mark Gerson’s Bold New Book

GOD AND SCIENCE

Mark Gerson’s latest book, God Was Right: How Modern Social Science Proves the Torah Is True shows how the Torah’s guidance is not only ancient but also validated by contemporary research. Approaching the Torah (the first five books of the Bible) as a guidebook, Gerson investigates its questions and prescriptions considering what modern social science has discovered about human flourishing and well-being. He says that when the Torah addresses practical, everyday questions—such as how to allocate time, how to cultivate happiness, how to succeed in relationships, and how to raise children—its answers often align with or even anticipate the conclusions reached by today’s social scientists.

Key themes explored include:

• The Torah’s advice on major life choices (dating, marriage, education, philanthropy) and how consistent it is with studies in psychology, health, and sociology.

• Examining parallels between insights and findings from the Torah on issues like peer pressure, resilience (antifragility), risk (insurance), happiness, and even sports outcomes.

• Challenging today’s “victim culture” and instead encouraging “dignity culture” by drawing comparisons between biblical wisdom and modern movements in social science.

BACKGROUND

Mark Gerson is an entrepreneur who founded and seeded multiple multibillion dollar companies with more being created each year. He also co-founded African Mission Healthcare that partners with Christian missionary doctors to provide clinical care, infrastructure and training for the poor in Africa. In this role he's thought of as the single largest donor to Christians medical missions around the world!

Mark is also the co-founder and Chairman of United Hatzalah, the crowd-sourced network of volunteer medics that responds within minutes to save people's lives. 

THE RABBI’S HUSBAND

Mark’s website https://www.godwasright.com/ focuses on helping people discover the Torah in the way that Moses intended. In Deuteronomy 10, Moses says what God wants of us: “To walk in all of his ways...[and] observe the commandments of Hashem, which I command you today, for your benefit.”

The Torah is given “for our benefit.” It exists to help and guide us in “all of our ways” — in everything we do. One of the Jewish lessons that will emerge throughout his website is that, in Judaism, cognition is always associated with action. In other words, we must learn the word of God and put it into action. Mark and his family do this by educating, giving, and helping those in need.
 

To purchase his latest book God Was Right: How Modern Social Science Proves the Torah is True click the LINK!  

CREDITS

Best-selling author, God Was Right: How Modern Social Science Proves the Torah is True (Ben Bella Books, 2025); entrepreneur; philanthropist; co-founder, Gerson Lehrman Group, African Mission Healthcare, United Hatzalah of Israel (emergency response); Graduate of Williams College & Yale Law School; married to Rabbi Erica; four kids.