“The book of Koheleth is not a pseudepigraph, seeking to masquerade as the authentic work of Solomon”
The book of Koheleth is not a pseudepigraph, seeking to masquerade as the authentic...
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“Modern Orthodoxy is Modern. But it is also Orthodoxy.”
It is indeed not difficult to point to various trends within Modern Orthodoxy over...
“The existence of agunot is the ugliest moral scar on the face of Orthodox Judaism, bar none”
The existence of agunot is the ugliest moral scar on the face of Orthodox...
“What is it about Rabbi Akiva that caused him to be venerated in a manner that no one else was?”
What is it about Rabbi Akiva that caused him to be venerated in a...
“The rabbis of the Talmud knew the historical truth: post-biblical Judaism, not scripture, is the source for the general prohibition of intermarriage”
The Talmudim are aware that the prohibition of intermarriage is a product of second...
“Rabbinic society was not much affected by intermarriage…”
Rabbinic society was not much affected by intermarriage. The Palestinian Talmud has a rabbi...
“One of the central characteristics of post-biblical Judaism is its prohibition of intermarriage…”
One of the central characteristics of post-biblical Judaism is its prohibition of intermarriage. A...
“No other book within the Bible…is as intensely personal as Koheleth”
No other book within the Bible, and few outside of it in world literature,...
Understanding Certain Stories in Rabbinic Literature as “literary constructs which try to convey certain religious, moral, and ideological messages or transmit legal instructions”
Other types of narratives have also been identified within rabbinic sources. At one end...
“Chareidi Yeshivish Hebrew…evolved after the Holocaust”
Mention must…be made of another new dialect that came about in the twentieth century:...