Talmud and Halakhah

Ben Rothke takes a sober look at a new book that tries to square Orthodox Judaism with New Age Medicine.

Moshe Kurtz explores halakhic and hashkafic considerations surrounding bringing young children to shul.

Concluding our series on the recent Siyum ha-Shas, Channa Lockshin Bob wonders: What do we want the next Women's Siyum ha-Shas to look like?

Yakov Nagen's Soul of the Mishna contains a wealth of readings that combine academic, literary, and spiritual perspectives on the Mishnah, writes Richard Hidary. Read the full review of the book, now accessible to an English-speaking audience, in our latest at the Lehrhaus.

Yaakov Jaffe explores a common synagogue practice, and why it doesn't seem so halakhic. minyan,

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

In a rare piece of Lehrhaus Purim Torah, Mark Glass explores—with surprising halakhic rigor—whether the Pokémon named Bulbasaur’s use of a Solar Beam attack would constitute cooking on Shabbat.

Yoni Zolty and Jordan Soffer respond to Jeff Fox's recent article on football and halakhic values.

Sarah Zager puts #MeToo in conversation with the Talmudic discussion of the death penalty.

What was the covenant of peace God gave Pinchas? R. Shlomo Zuckier puts the pieces together to find out