Tag: Maimonides

Post-pandemic proposals to omit hazarat ha-shatz on a permanent basis have been soundly rejected by halakhic authorities. Is this due exclusively to halakhic considerations, or are additional factors at play? Yosie Levine contends that Ashkenazic rabbinic opposition to 19th-century attempts to eliminate hazarat ha-shatz may still be shaping halakhic discourse today.

After Professor Yaakov Blidstein's passing on Thursday, Marc Herman recalls his teacher's astonishing blend of scholarly creativity and intellectual humility.

Rabbi Kenneth Brander, head of Ohr Torah Stone, explores what the daily blessing on Talmud Torah can teach us about how to foster religious continuity.

Eliezer Finkelman discusses the meaning of perfect repentance.

Bezalel Naor responds to Bezalel Safran's Straussian reading of the Rambam.

Ariel Krakowski explores the connection between Maimonides and the Stoics.

Suzanne Last Stone reviews Chaim Saiman's Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law.

David Fried forwards the surprising thesis that Maimonides was a medieval mystic.

Bezalel Naor explains what is philosophical about the erstwhile halakhic observances of the Shavuot holiday.

James Diamond takes a fresh approach to Maimonides's Passover theology and "Elijah's Cup."