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The following is an excerpt from Sources: A Journal of Jewish Ideas, Spring 2023 issue. To read the full essay and more from Sources, click here. Israel has been straddling a unique tension between ...

In an age of technological dominance and perpetual growth, Shabbat’s message may be the Torah’s most urgent contribution: ...

A newly published posthumous collection of essays by Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein (1933-2015), Values in Halakhah: Six Case Studies, contends that they are. Lichtenstein grew up in the United States, ...

ABSTRACT Since the 1970s, the phrase lifnim mi-shurat ha-din (lit. “within the line of the law”) has been at the center of debates over whether Jewish ethics is part of Jewish law (halakhah) or ...

“Let us, step by step, bequeath Torah law to the citizens of Israel, and let us turn Halakhah [Jewish Law] into the State’s compulsory law,” said Justice Minister Yaakov Ne’eman on Monday at a ...

Halakhah — the Rabbinic Idea of Law, Chaim N. Saiman, Princeton, £24 ...

In Gender Equality and Prayer in Jewish Law, Rabbis Ethan Tucker and Micha’el Rosenberg have produced a book that is noteworthy for its integrity, accuracy, and clarity. The authors worked for many ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Tradition is a quarterly journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought, published by the Rabbinical Council of America. It has been in ...

“Homosexuality, Human Dignity and Halakhah” was approved by the Rabbinical Assembly’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (CJLS) on December 6, 2006, representing a watershed moment for the ...

What are these beloved “gates of Zion"? Why are they so dear to God? A simple understanding of this verse would point to the gates of the holy Temple in Jerusalem, treasured above any other building ...

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