Talmud and Halakhah

Rami Reiner breaks new ground, analyzing Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein's view of academic Jewish studies.

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

Shlomo Zuckier offers a close literary reading of the fascinating Ketia bar Shalom narrative on Avodah Zarah 10b!

Tzvi Sinensky makes a case to consider Rabbi Norman Lamm as pathbreaking Talmud innovator.

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

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...

Harvard Professor Jon Levenson weighs in on what stops the floodwaters: rabbinic creativity or the Temple!

Levi Morrow explores how the Rabbis use creative exegesis to save the world from drowning in a flood

Dan Margulies offers a rundown of the sukkah zip-tie construction, the next great halakhic frontier

Shlomo Zuckier explores the nature of Yom Kippur and its relationship to atonement.