This article originally appeared in Ten Da'at, vol. 5, 1, 1990, pp. 24-26. Appears here with permission. Our students study Humash but do they understand it? They can translate psukim but can they discern the concepts? They may read Rashi and Ramban but do they...
1. Financial Deception 2. Cheating With Words 3. Advertising and Misleading a) Bait and Switch b) Weasel-Word Stratagem 4. Laws on Interest 5. Competition אונאת ממון Financial Deception 1) The gemara Shabbos tells us that after 120 years the first question that a...
This article appears in Traditions and Celebrations for the Bat Mitzvah edited by Ora Wiskind Elper.[1] Published by Urim Publications and MaTaN: The Sadie Rennert Women's Institute for Torah Studies, 2003. I. Talmudic Sources Jewish law generally frees women from...
Reprinted from Ten Da’at Vol. III No. 3 pp.7-8 Taking into account the place of Torah study in the Jewish weltanschauung, the outstanding issue representing a substantial difference between men and women is constituted by the exemption ofwomen from Torah study....
This work provides an overview of the most important efforts on codification of Jewish Law as well as the commentaries that as a result of the codification. This work makes note of the Rif, the Mishneh Torah, the Tur, and the Shulchan Aruch as well as many other...
This article originally appeared in Tradition 16:1, 1976. Zionism in the twentieth century has created a framework for Jewish political activism. It expresses the revolutionary thrust of the Jewish people to become politically autonomous and responsible. It...
Camino Real and Modern Talmud Study [1] Shalom Carmy From Modern Scholarship in the Study of Torah: Contributions and Limitations, ed. Shalom Carmy, Orthodox Forum Series, New York, 1991. The Orthodox Forum Series is a Project of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological...
It seems to be common knowledge that the challenges of modernity for Judaism arise from two factors of contemporary life: ease of communication, and the fact that we have wide availability of information about lives quite different from our own and the fact that we...
To read the article (originally submitted in 2002), which includes 19 biblical sources click here.
This article originally appeared in Tradition, Summer 1976. This article refers to the article "Halakhah as a Ground for Creating a Shared Spiritual Language" by David Hartman. To read it, click here. Rabbi Hartman has given us a strong case for the sharing of...