Saving Non-Jews on Shabbat: Two Perspectives on the Development of a Sensitive Halakhah
Jonathan Ziring explores the innovative nature of different Halakhic rulings permitting violating Shabbat to save non-Jewish lives.
First Fruits (Bikkurim) and the Talmudic View of Capital: An Essai in the Philosophy...
Bezalel Naor explains what is philosophical about the erstwhile halakhic observances of the Shavuot holiday.
“She Should Carry Out All Her Deeds According to His Directives:” A Halakhah in...
Does the Rambam means what he says about gender relations? Yosef Bronstein surveys the intellectual landscape.
How to Feel “Sight Damage”: A Case Study on Sensory Imagination and Halakhic Understanding
Yonah Lavery-Yisraeli offers a careful examination of an enigmatic discussion in the Shulhan Arukh’s laws on neighborly relations. She demonstrates how “radical presence” and attention to sensory details is an essential strategy for halakhic decision-making.
Does the Torah Care About Your Feelings?
Josh Yuter looks at the ways that Halakha takes into consideration, and responds to, human feelings.
Of Warriors and Wolves
In these difficult times for Israel, Aharon Frazer of Alon Shvut is thinking about the fundamental sanctity of human life and the long game. Can war and weapons really take us toward the messianic age?
Rav Lichtenstein on Wissenschaft in his Own (Yiddish) Words
Shlomo Zuckier presents Rav Aharon Lichtenstein's own thoughts on academic Talmud.
The Beit Midrash in the Age of Snapchat
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...
Decision-Making on Matters of Halakhic Public Policy or Meta-Halakhic Issues: Some Tentative Thoughts
Nathaniel Helfgot outlines decision making in matters of halakhic policy and meta-halakhah.
No Law in Heaven
Moshe Koppel Reviews Chaim Saiman's Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law.
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