The Four Elements

How I went from questioning Tanya to questioning H2O

It is sometimes assumed that the four elements of Fire, Wind, Water, and Earth, as mentioned in Judaism, derive from non-Jewish sources. The Lubavitcher Rebbe rejects this view. Maimonides encodes the elements in his Mishne Torah,¹ and as a strict halakhic work, all information contained therein is (first) critical to fulfilling G-d’s commands and (thus)…