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R' Hirsch: Decluttering Midrash
Modern kabbalists seem to enjoy using ambiguous statements from Tanach or Chazal to strengthen their theological or ideological positions.
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What Is a Kingdom...and Why?
In different contexts, both Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (Essays on Ethics: Parashas Shemos) and Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik (in The Free Press) have noted the…
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When Did We All Start Ignoring the "Sealing of the Talmud"?
It’s popularly understood that the completion of the Talmud around 1,500 years ago marked a critical transition in halachic history.
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When Memory Is Your Mesorah's Weakest Link
Years ago, I would frequently share one of my favorite pieces from R’ Hirsch which concerned the first meeting between Lavan and Avraham’s slave…
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Rabbi Hirsch on Losing the Battles You've Won
The novelist Michael Crichton was supposed to have observed that activists are never useful for more than ten years or so.
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[repost] What Are We Supposed To Be Doing on Tisha B'Av?
We all know the things we can’t do on Tisha B’Av.
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When 7+7 Might Not = 14
By all accounts, the fourteenth year after Yehoshua led our ancestors across the Jordan into Israel was eventful.
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Must One Believe That the Zohar Is Authoritative?
In the spring of 1914, around 125 Jerusalem Ashkenazi and Sefardi Jews (most of them presumably rabbis) signed a document containing violent curses…
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Strange Stories and Reverse Allegories
Through the course of my 20-year yeshiva high school teaching career, my style evolved.
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What Are We Supposed To Be Doing on Tisha B'Av?
We all know the things we can’t do on Tisha B’Av.
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What Do You Consider a Square Meal?
A glimpse into our ancestors' daily lives
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What Exactly is the Oral Torah?
Does believing that "all Torah is Oral Torah" conflict with the halachic process?
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