Cultural Heritage in an Age of Genocide
Matthew Omolesky considers the importance of culture in the face of genocide.
The Wanderings of Adam and Cain – A Tale of Midrashic Migration
Shlomo Zuckier on the mechanics of a midrashic motif.
Who Caused the Deaths of the 10 Martyrs? The Kinot of the 9th of...
Yaakov Jaffe analyzes what the Kinah about the Ten Martyrs says about heroism.
Maimonides at the Museum
David Fried reviews The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries, the companion volume to the Yeshiva University Museum’s exhibit on Maimonides.
Wanted: Precision, Nuance, and Avodat Hashem
Jeffrey Woolf contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.
A Year in Review – 2022
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.
The Vital Principles of Judaism in Our beloved Country: An Early Twentieth Century...
Lehrhaus is proud to present Rabbi Henry Schneeberger's 1911 sermon in honor of Thanksgiving.
The Pedagogical Imagination of a Subversive Conservative: Rabbi Soloveitchik’s Arrival as an Educational Visionary
Jeffrey Saks concludes The Lehrhaus series, mapping out the intellectual biography of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Love Bends the Line
David Curwin
“Ahavah mekalkelet et ha-shurah.”
— Bereishit Rabbah 55:8
The sages used the above phrase “love bends the line” to describe Abraham’s actions before the akeidah:...
Killing Off the Rav (So He May Live)
William Kolbrener calls for an end to Rav-polemicizing so that all interested parties might finally take his legacy and teachings at full-depth.
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