Talmud and Halakhah

Jonathan Ziring explores the innovative nature of different Halakhic rulings permitting violating Shabbat to save non-Jewish lives.

Sharon Galper Grossman and Shamai Grossman examine the halakhic permissibility of vaccine mandates by governments and employers.

As part of his Legal Fictions creative project, Dovid Campbell reimagines the content of Mishna Shekalim 6:2 in an evocative narrative of disability and Temple service.

Jeremy Brown discusses some remarkable Talmudic and historical precedents for social distancing during pandemics.

Chaim Saiman analyzes how the Torah's two introductions to the revelation at Sinai correspond to two perspectives on the nature of halakhic civil law.

Yaakov Jaffe traces the origins and evolution of the custom to shake the lulav in different directions.

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

A response to Yosef Bronstein's study on Halakhah's engagement with societal norms

Moshe Kurtz explores the different meanings of silence in Halakhah in light of recent political events

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.