Talmud and Halakhah

Max Hollander analyzes the Talmudic narrative of Pardes and the four rabbis who entered it.

Alan Jotkowitz shares insights into Rambam’s Hilkhot Teshuvah

Jeffrey Fox contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.

What is the halakhic status of those mourning the loss of their parents-in-law? Aaron Ross, inspired by his personal experience, grapples with the lack of formal aveilut rituals for non-biological relatives.

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.

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

What exactly did Rav Moshe Feinstein hold regarding our obligations toward secular law? Does Halakhah distinguish between the first forty days and afterward for gentiles? Michael Broyde responds to his critics.

Dan Margulies explores various opinions on where to light a Hanukah Lamp in dorms and apartments.

What does the makeup of the altar drainage pipes tell us about the nature of holiness? Shlomo Zuckier explores!

Avi Baumol reviews Rabbi Eliezer Melamed's bold contribution to the halakhic literature on conversion standards.