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Funerals: Who Must Attend?

You Are What You Read

A Remarkable (and Underappreciated) IDF Success

A Tale of Two Pictures

When Memory Is Your Mesorah's Weakest Link

When Halacha Just Gets in the Way

Therapy: Navigating Strange Incentives, Murky Goals, and Elastic Training

Are There Controls and Limits to the Creativity of Minhagim?

Swapping Selichos: why should it make a difference?

A Yomim Noraim and Sukkos Reading List

Why Wash Hands When Leaving a Cemetery?

Doing Judaism My Way (by Manipulating Halacha)

Are We Ignoring Opportunities for Understanding Tanach Better?

Rabbi Hirsch on Losing the Battles You've Won

Private Economies and the Public Tax Burden (repost)

[repost] What Are We Supposed To Be Doing on Tisha B'Av?

Should You Learn (and Practice) Kabbala?

Rebelliousness, Parnassa, and Hirsch: the Podcast Edition

What Can't be Said: Social Engagement in the Torah World

Is Mishna Berura the "Posek Acharon"?

Struggling to Understand the Nefesh Hachaim

How Do We Know God Is Incorporeal?

Torah Constraints on Saving Lives

Beards and Payos: When Fashion Drifts Away from Halacha

L'shem Yichud: Do You Understand What You're Actually Saying?

When 7+7 Might Not = 14

Assessing the Modern "Yeshivishe" Approach to Torah Learning

Who Really Expects a Third Mikdash?

Must One Believe That the Zohar Is Authoritative?

Mechiras Chometz: Overselling a Mitzvah

When Haggada Numbers Aren't Meant to be Taken Literally

Strange Stories and Reverse Allegories

Who Says God Will Revive the Dead?

Whatever Happened to Daas Torah?

Just What Are You Singing About?