Halakhic Books/Works/Writings “Before engaging in any dialectic analysis, the Tosafists engaged in a close reading of the local passage,…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 February 2015 Before engaging in any dialectic analysis, the Tosafists engaged in a close reading of...
Halakhic Books/Works/Writings “Rashi’s line-by-line explanations of the entire talmudic corpus opened the book of the Talmud in a way that was previously unparalleled” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 February 2015 Rashi’s line-by-line explanations of the entire talmudic corpus opened the book of the Talmud...
Halakhic Books/Works/Writings “The Tosafist schools set out to analyze the entire Talmud using all relevant talmudic passages as a context and backdrop for the text under scrutiny” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 January 2015 The Tosafists approached the talmudic text with a similar perspective: talmudic passages could be...
Halakhic Books/Works/Writings Rabbi Isaac of Dampierre and His Students Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 January 2015 Ri is known to have lectured on the entire talmudic corpus and his academy...
Halakhic Books/Works/Writings, Modern Orthodoxy “A Guide to the Complex is, therefore, such a helpful model for what Modern Orthodox halakhah can be….” Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 December 2014 A Guide to the Complex is, therefore, such a helpful model for what Modern...
Halakhah, Halakhic Books/Works/Writings “Halakhah has become another tool in the arsenal of inter-denominal polemics and, even more fiercely, internal Orthodox polemics” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 December 2014 There is, too often, an inverse relationship between the public awareness of a given...
Jewish Books “instead of categorizing…rabbinic authorities…as those who believed in demons and those who denied their existence, it would be more meaningful to categorize them as rationalists…versus dogmatists” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 October 2014 One usually imagines a disagreement about the existence of demons to be a dispute...
Jewish Books “Just because ancient rabbis and sages believed in demons does not mean we are bound to do likewise” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 October 2014 In his comments on the Shulhan Arukh‘s rulling, the Gaon of Vilna, known as...
Jewish Books Did Rambam Believe in Demons? Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 October 2014 It is the general consensus of the academic community that Rambam denied the existence...
Halakhic Books/Works/Writings Differences Amongst Rishonim Regarding the Use of the Talmud Yerushalmi Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 September 2014 Anyone who regularly learns Rashba, Ritva, Rambam, or Rabbeinu Chananel sees that these Rishonim...