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Is the Zohar Compatible With Monotheism?
To get started, we’ll need some working definition for (Jewish) monotheism.
 • Boruch Clinton
What Is Shavuos Night Learning Supposed to Fix?
The widespread custom to stay awake and learn Shavuos night can be mostly traced back to the Shela (R’ Yehoshua Horowitz) who quoted Rabbi Shlomo…
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Yeridas Hadoros: Are We Really Getting Dumber?
There’s a near-universal assumption in the frum world that the quality of Jewish intellectual and spiritual life is subject to ongoing decline.
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Squaring the Kabbala vs Halacha Circle
Is questioning Zohar's authenticity compatible with the historical halachic process?
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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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Are There Controls and Limits to the Creativity of Minhagim?
If we (theoretically) removed all innovations to the modern siddur which were added in the past 500 years, we’d probably spend considerably less time in…
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Swapping Selichos: why should it make a difference?
As many of you have probably noticed, there’s a widespread custom to switch the selichos designated for the fourth day of עשרת ימי תשובה with those…
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Should You Learn (and Practice) Kabbala?
I suppose it might be useful to have an opinion about whether or not the Zohar is an authentic Torah source or whether or not the Ari’s innovations…
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Is Mishna Berura the "Posek Acharon"?
I’m not sure where the idea started, but I’ve heard how the Mishna Berura is somehow the final authority in halacha from more than one talmid chochom.
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L'shem Yichud: Do You Understand What You're Actually Saying?
Some days you just can’t open a regular Artscroll siddur without falling down a deep rabbit hole of theological controversy.
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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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