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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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The Vilna Gaon, Aristotle, and The Solar System
How to understand the argument the Gra would have used to convince Aristotle
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When Halacha Changes...
How an entire category of Torah law actually fell out of practice due to changing economies
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Surviving (and Winning) the Coming Fertility Crisis
Could preventing a general population collapse lead to new opportunities for frum communities?
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An Important Update to the Shidduch Story
My recent “The Largest Shidduch Crisis Ever?” article attracted a lot more discussion than I’d expected. We’ll get to some of the insights that came out…
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Torah Study and the Value of Scholarship
Accomplishing great things with Torah requires a clear definition of what we want to become
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Are We Sure We Know How to Read Torah Sources?
The Yerushalmi, Rashba, and Korban HaEidah on the limits of the rules of Hebrew language
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So There's Actually No Connection Between Rome and Edom?
A popular assumption without an apparent source
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Wine, Vinegar, Barley, and the Providence of Chametz
What drove Rashi to identify the Lebanese city of Tyre with Eisav and Edom?
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Thinking About What We Teach
Not every popular story is true. And not every popular story even makes sense.
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Is the Text of Our Torah Scrolls Accurate?
The consequences of the historical confusion over the masoretic Torah text.
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