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All posts organized by subject, parasha, and moadim

Boruch Clinton
Nov 21, 2021
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(for parshios and moadim, see below)


The Tzedaka Industry

  • The Economics of the Modern Tzedaka Industry

  • How Modern Tzedaka Organizations Can Be More Effective

  • Adding Transparency to Tzedaka Organizations

  • Adjusting Torah

  • Tzedaka Emails and the Criminal Misuse of Public Space

Chinuch

  • Is More Torah Always Better?

  • Who Should Control Torah Education?

  • Are Yeshiva Programs Planned?

  • Thinking About What We Teach

  • Are We Getting Close to Robot Rabbis?

  • Where Does Torah Greatness Come From?

  • What's the True Value of a Mitzva?

  • Are We Sure We Know How to Read Torah Sources?

  • Torah Study and the Value of Scholarship

Jewish Economics

  • Making Sense of the Sheitel Industry

  • The Mystery of Jewish Economics

  • What Does It Really Cost To Be Frum?

  • Pre-Pesach Frum Consumer Price Index Update

  • Retail Product Pricing and Halacha

  • Torah Observance and Financial Stability

  • Private Economies and the Public Tax Burden

The Kashrus Industry

  • Understanding the Evolution of Kashrus in North America

  • What Does the Torah Say About Checking for Bugs?

Jewish Society

  • What Can't be Said: social engagement in the Torah world

  • Frum Opinions: Analysing the Survey Results

  • Should Insurance Companies Run the World?

  • Web Search Patterns and Jewish History

  • More Jewish Web Search Patterns

  • Coercion and Torah

  • Does This Insight Perfectly Capture the Contemporary Frum Consumer Spirit?

  • Civil Infrastructure and a Torah State

  • Measuring Charedim

  • Adjusting Strategy for Changing Demographics

  • Is Analyzing Jewish Population Numbers Even Permitted?

  • Is There a Shidduch Crisis?

  • Misheli and Government - Part Three

  • The Value of Specialization

  • Has the Prohibition of Mesirah Changed?

  • What we can learn from the huge dating/marriage problem in non-Jewish society

  • An Important Update to the Shidduch Story

Career Education

  • How to Plan Your Career Preparation

  • Career Prep: Self-Directed Learning

  • Are Frum Career Colleges Worth the Cost?

  • Frum Career Colleges: Reflections on the Survey Results

Financial Education

  • But It'll Be Cheaper if You Pay Cash

  • Articulating the Obvious

  • How Much Should a Chumra Cost?

Health and Security

  • Understanding Digital Privacy

  • Is It Possible To Overdo Medical Care?

  • Responding to Abuse

  • Thinking About Road Safety

Minhagim

  • Why Do We Say Selichos

  • Selichos Follow Up

  • Why Blow 100 Kolos on Rosh Hashana

  • The Four Species: waved but never shaken

  • Should I Buy a Chazon Ish Isrog?

  • How Should We Think About Halacha?

  • Visualizing Traditional Yom Tov Davening

  • Women Working on Rosh Chodesh

  • Who Would Want to Keep Two Days of Yom Kippur?

  • Keeping Track of an Ever-Changing Siddur

  • Visiting the Dead

  • Mixed Swimming and Halacha

History

  • Why Did Ramchal Write Mesilas Yesharim?

  • A History of Torah Observance

  • Your Soul Ain't What It Used To Be

  • When Is a Proof Not (Really) a Proof?

  • Is the Text of Our Torah Scrolls Accurate?

  • Lost In Translation: was the Septuagint actually a good thing?

  • Wine, Vinegar, Barley, and the Providence of Chametz

  • So There's Actually No Connection Between Rome and Edom?

  • Where Middos Make the Difference: remembering Rav Naftali Friedler z”l

  • Thinking About God

  • God Really, Really Wants Us to Understand. But What? And Why?

Torah and Government

  • Leadership, authority, and transparency in public life

  • Divine right of kings and other ways to understand social authority

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

  • How the state has no business being kind to its citizens

  • Balancing the instinct for power against the dangers of overconfidence

  • Government, the Rule of Law, and Applying David's Tehilim to the Real World


Topics by Parshios

Beraishis

  • The search for consensus in defining Jewish approaches to "nefesh" and "neshama"

Chayai Sarah

  • Are We Sure We Know How to Read Torah Sources?

Toldos

  • Guiding Fools: the Jerusalem Talmud's Haggada

Vayeshev

  • Do derashos add light to their sources, or does it really work the other way around?

Vayishlach

  • So There's Actually No Connection Between Rome and Edom?

Yisro

  • How Should We Think About Halacha?

  • The Value of Specialization

Titzave

  • The Four Species: waved but never shaken

Ki Sisa

  • Is Analyzing Jewish Population Numbers Even Permitted?

  • Selichos...A Follow Up

Kedoshim

  • Should Torah sources be misrepresented to promote innovative halachic positions?

Behar

  • Torah Observance and Financial Stability

  • Retail Product Pricing and Halacha

Bechukosai

  • Is It Possible To Overdo Medical Care?

V'eschanan

  • How Much Should a Chumra Cost?

  • Thinking About God

Re'eh

  • Torah Observance and Financial Stability

  • Not every popular story is true. And not every popular story even makes sense.

Ki Tzatzai

  • What Does the Torah Say About Checking for Bugs?

Ki Savo

  • Who says the Torah should never have been translated to other languages?

Nitzavim

  • God Really, Really Wants Us to Understand. But Understand What? And Why?

Vayelech

  • A History of Torah Observance


Topics by the Moadim

  • Why Do We Say Selichos?

  • Selichos...A Follow Up

  • Why Blow 100 קולות on Rosh Hashana?

  • Who Would Want to Keep Two Days of Yom Kippur?

  • Should I Buy a Chazon Ish Esrog?

  • The Four Species: waved but never shaken

  • Visualizing Traditional Yom Tov Davening

  • Wine, Vinegar, Barley, and the Providence of Chametz

  • Guiding Fools: the Jerusalem Talmud's Haggada

  • Women Working on Rosh Chodesh


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