Avrohom Katz

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Rabbi Avrohom Katz is an Orthodox rabbi, scientist, writer, lecturer, author and educator. Born in Leeds and currently living in Gateshead, He is the founding principal of Gateshead Jewish Academy for Girls.

His works were first published weekly for years in the English edition of the chareidi Litvish newspaper Yated Ne'eman, under the pseudonym Tuvia Cohen in columns explaining and observing nature through popular science with a creationist perspective, and was later published by Feldheim Publishers and ArtScroll in three separate books:

Designer World
Our Amazing World
Our Wondrous World

He credits his works by being inspired through his mentor the late Rabbi Avigdor Miller.^[1] To take the latest science developments and advancements, and use it for means to proof the traditionalist religious worldview on nature and life, popularly referred to as Creationism.

He begins each chapter with a look at a familiar everyday or interesting worldly phenomenon or a quirk of human nature and presents it with classic anecdotal and dry British wit pointing out the most unlikely things to lightly amuse and entertain the reader. Then he takes the reader to a closer look, through using his foreword as a stepping stone and analogy to the broader scientific subject at hand, shining light and presenting the deep complicated vast wisdom of plan and purpose in every single minute detail of creation and life.

Every chapter looks at a different issue, from the animal kingdom to the plant world, and from the vast universe of cosmos to the last minute functions and details of the personal human body and physique. Chapter after chapter, he takes us behind the scenes of nature and shows us the hand and the wisdom of a planner designer and facilitator, and the depth of kindness and foresight in every detail, through scientific facts numbers and explanations.

The author has an unusual knack of looking at everyday events with curiosity and using those observations as analogy's and analysis to intertwine it in his presentations of the vast knowledge with which he entertains and educates his readers and listeners. thus powerfully awakening their faith and love to a creator and creation, and making them aware and inspired with the love of life.

Rabbi Matisyohu Salomon the spiritual leader of Lakewood Jewish community and his acquaintance from his native Gateshead, writes that "the works of Rabbi Katz is [sic] an updated Sha'ar Habechina,"^[2] meaning that this style and form of teaching to make people aware of the wonders of nature was first done by the Chovot ha-Levavot, which is now very primitive and outdated form of science, mainly in his second chapter, Sha'ar HaBechina. This is now revived and updated by Rabbi Katz in our modern, technically advanced world of science and knowledge of nature.