Talmud and Halakhah

It is customary to celebrate Tu Bi-Shevat by eating fruits and reciting the She-Hehiyanu blessing on them. This custom, however, has proved challenging in recent years as advances in technology have made it difficult to find new fruit—as defined by halakhah—to say the She-Hehiyanu

In a piece that resonates today, Tzvi Sinensky examines what made the Jews' salvation from the plague of the firstborns so miraculous.

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

Authors mis-citing citations on authors citing authors. What gives? Yiddish.

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

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

Mois Navon explores what makes Hanukkah so special.

Dov Lerner weaves together Scripture, midrash and rabbinic commentary in urging closer attention to tone in public discourse.

On this flag day, Moshe Kurtz surveys the arguments for and against displaying national flags in synagogues.

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...