Meta-Reflections

Yisroel Ben-Porat offers historical, hashkafic, and personal reflections on what’s often called the “Judeo-Christian” tradition and whether a Torah u-Madda outlook can embrace the study of Christianity.

Shmuel Hain Reviews Chaim Saiman's Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law.

Ari Lamm explores a recent instance of talmudic censorship, as well as its implications for thinking about Jewish-Christian relations and American society at large.

What do Adam, Enkidu, and Reish Lakish all have in common? Eli Putterman explores.

David Stein with a fresh look at the methods and priorities of teaching Talmud in Modern Orthodox day schools.

Many synagogue goers found the abbreviated High Holiday services we recently concluded quite appealing. Need we eventually go back to the way it was before coronavirus? Not really, argues Moshe Kurtz, surveying the substantial halakhic support for shortening the services every year.

Judah Kerbel explores how differing approaches to listening to music during Sefirat ha-Omer balance the appropriate role for subjectivity in halakhic decision-making.

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

Tzvi Sinensky comments on the pitfalls of being overly dependent on the "Talmudic reid."

Shira Hecht-Koller Earlier this year, Apple released the iPhone X. When the first iPhone was released in 2007, I was completing my second year of...