Talmud and Halakhah

Sharon Galper-Grossman and Shamai Grossman discuss the obligation for minors to get vaccinated.

Yonathan Reches explores the sources related to a bridge traversing over and Eruv.

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

Steven Gotlib reviews Eugene Korn’s To Be a Holy People: Jewish Tradition and Ethical Values, a book which asks hard questions about whether Halakhah can integrate with the demands of contemporary ethics.

Nathaniel Helfgot outlines decision making in matters of halakhic policy and meta-halakhah.

Suzanne Last Stone reviews Chaim Saiman's Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law.

Jonah Mac Gelfand explores the neo-Hasidic theology of obligation to do mitzvot that emerges from the fascinating writings of Rabbi Arthur Green.

Aton Holzer explores the inscrutability of the Mitzvah of Shofar.

Atara Cohen considers the theological implications of the Talmud’s surprising majority opinion as to how the Messiah will come.

Elinatan Kupferberg argues that the boundaries between Torah and Madda have blurred and evolved throughout Jewish intellectual history. This erudite analysis upends our assumptions about Torah u-Madda and breathtakingly reimagines its past, present, and future.