Jewish Thought and History

Tzvi Goldstein responds to letters from Chaim Goldberg and Yaakov Resnik on his piece on the differences between Centrist and Haredi Orthodoxy, unpacking the view of Rav Hayyim Volozhin’s Nefesh Ha-Hayyim.

Bezalel Naor translates and contextualizes a poem by Pinchas Peli about the home of Rav Kook.

AJ Berkovitz explores the "life" of Jewish books, from authors to owners to outside the margins.

Elli Fischer explores the ideological components of developments in Hanukkah traditions.

Aryeh Klapper with some new translation-stylings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Halakhic Man.

Ari Lamm on the Bat Kol in rabbinic literature and its implications for Orthodox discourse

How do Moses Mendelssohn and Revelation jibe? Judah Kerbel offers some perspective.

Our traditional longing for the rebuilding of the Beit Ha-Mikdash elides uncomfortable questions about the dramatic differences between sacrificial worship and our current models of serving God. Meir Kraus argues that the time has come to engage in this difficult conversation, especially in light of the growing religious-political movement to restore Jewish presence on the Temple Mount. Kraus also proposes an “alternative vision” for a future Temple era.

As 2022 comes to a close, the Lehrhaus team is proud to feature some highlights from our contributions this past year. Yet again, we have published at least one hundred original pieces across a wide variety of genres.

Elli Fischer contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.