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 reflects...
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...
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...
This article originally appeared in TRADITION 26:3, 1992. I.The theme of Pluralism, as it relates to the value of controversy and to the legitimacy and precise status of conflicting opinions, is fundamental to law and obviously constitutes a crucial conceptual and...
THE SABBATH IN THE SPACE AGE Azriel Rosenfeld This article originally appeared in Tradition Summer 1964 Introduction The Jewish religious law (Halakhah) relating to Sabbath observance consists primarily of injunctions against performing certain actions on the...
This article is a Hebrew responsa that deals with the Halakhic implications of a man in space. בס"ד יום רביעי כ"א מר"ח תשס"ב ירושלים כבוד הרב הנעלה חיים צבי קאניקאו שליט"א שלום וברכה, בדבר השאלה בעניין הנהגת אדם מישראל שנוסע בלווין שאצלו כל שעה וחצי מתחלף מלילה ליום...
Background: A news article appearing in The New York Times on Sunday, February 10, 2002, dealt with the petition of some Israeli reservists protesting their assignment to duty in the West Bank and Gaza. Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, Israel's defense minister, defended their...
Since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, its Independence Day or Yom ha-Atzmaut has been celebrated in a variety of ways. The religious community, at least that major part of it which saw in the founding of the State a historic blessing and a revelation of...