Meta-Reflections

Last year, Nathan B. Oman, a Latter-day Saint and law professor, bought hametz from the members of Chaim Saiman’s synagogue before Passover. This is his story—a profound meditation on the nature of religious law and legal fiction — with an introduction by Chaim Saiman.

Lehrhaus Editor Shlomo Zuckier examines two divergent understandings of Jewish law.

Sefaria has recently published a new bilingual digital edition of Talmud Yerushalmi. Taking stock of this development, Zachary Rothblatt offers an erudite synthesis of the history of Yerushalmi.

Elinatan Kupferberg argues that the boundaries between Torah and Madda have blurred and evolved throughout Jewish intellectual history. This erudite analysis upends our assumptions about Torah u-Madda and breathtakingly reimagines its past, present, and future.

Shlomo Zuckier explores some surprising connections between the Talmud and the field of behavioral economics.

Josh Yuter looks at the ways that Halakha takes into consideration, and responds to, human feelings.

Rabbi Ezra Schwartz reviews Nishmat HaBayit, a responsa collection by the Yoatzot Halacha of Nishmat

Rabbi Daniel Reifman reviews Christine Hayes' Whats Divine about Divine Law?

Dan Jutan, Dov Greenwood, and Meir Kerzner explore the fundamentals of Jewish Education.

A growing list of dati le’umi leaders and thinkers frame war as a desirable state and even an opportunity for spiritual elevation. Religious Israeli activist Ariel Shwartz traces this trend with alarm and argues that it contradicts deep-rooted Torah values. Translated by Mordechai Blau.