…the ability of an individual halakhist to bring about a change depends, to a certain extent, on his ability to foresee the […]
The Mishnah Berurah (147:7) cautions that a weak person should never be honored with hagbah. In Spanish/Portuguese congregations, hagbah was entrusted only […]
There is a beautiful narrative in Ketubot 23a where Shmuel considered declaring a group of women captives tema’ot, and his father challenged […]
I have been told that the Beth Din of America operates on the principle that if one of the parties wants a […]
…the question of whether halakhah excludes women from holding specific roles or offices. From a feminist perspective, there is no question that […]
The halakhic inquiry, like any other cognitive theoretical performance, does not start out from the point of absolute zero as to sentimental […]
Rabbi Gordimer claims that there is no such thing as Modern Orthodox pesak, and that decisions by Modern Orthodox poskim “should look […]
Here are two additional considerations regarding the words of מר עוקבא: אמר מר עוקבא אנא להא מלתא חלא בר חמרא לגבי אבא […]
While some earlier rishonim required waiting between eating beheima meat and eating dairy, Rambam was the first to state that one must […]
Professor Haym Soloveitchik has argued convincingly that the unique arrangement of Hilchos Shabbos in Rambam’s Mishna Torah was organized specifically with anti-Qaraite […]
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