A popular assumption without an apparent source
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What drove Rashi to identify the Lebanese city of Tyre with Eisav and Edom?
How the state has no business being kind to its citizens
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February 2023

Actions are great. Thoughtful actions are even greater. But how can we be sure our mitzvos are effective?
Even great people can only be really good at a finite number of things. What, in Torah terms, does that change?

January 2023

Not every popular story is true. And not every popular story even makes sense.
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Artificial intelligence makes smart Torah-Bots possible. I know because I just built one.
The consequences of the historical confusion over the masoretic Torah text.
Who says the Torah should never have been translated to other languages?
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Using demographic tools to understand demographic problems
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Do derashos add light to their sources, or does it really work the other way around?
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December 2022

What's the ideal population from the perspective of good governance?