Rabbi Dov Linzer has an op-ed in today’s New York Times about modesty. The Talmud, the foundation of Jewish law, acknowledges that men can be sexually aroused by women and is indeed concerned with sexual thoughts and activity outside of marriage. But it does not tell women that men’s sexual urges are their responsibility. Rather, [...]
Coming soon from Brill: Seride Teshuvot-A Descriptive Catalogue of Responsa Fragments from the Jacques Mosseri Collection Cambridge University Library. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series Volume 3
Hebrewbooks continues to dazzle us all. Their latest upload includes the volumes of the important rabbinic journal Noam. Yishar Koach!
At Text and Texture Rabbi Shlomo Brody has a very nice post about “Rabbi Joseph Karo’s Shulchan Aruch and Magid Mesharim.” (hat tip)
David Ellenson and Daniel Gordis will give a lecture about their soon to be released book, Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa , on January 19, 2012 at the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning at Temple Emanu-El, One East 65th Street, New York, NY.
A two-volume memorial volume has just been published for Prof. I.M. Ta-Shma. (hat tip) The book can be ordered from EliezerBrodt-at-gmail.com. It is nine hundred pages of research into liturgy, Jewish law, customs, history, etc.
Here is the video of Rabbi Chaim Rapoport speaking at YCT about Sefer Torat ha-Melekh. (hat tip)
I just came across this interesting responsum from Sefer She’eilat Ḥacham Kanah Avraham from Abraham ben Daniel of Aptashni (18th c. Poland). (here) Question: A ritual slaughterer bought a sword from an executioner who had used it to execute people, and he gave it to a blacksmith to make it into a knife for ritual [...]
Last night I went to a panel discussion with Rabbis David Bigman and Chaim Rapoport on Values and Halakhah. You can see some of my immediate reactions in my Twitter feed. Yeshivat Chovevei Torah should be thanked for both organizing this thought-provoking discussion and uploading the videos so quickly to Youtube. The videos can be [...]
A number of months ago a conference on the book Torat ha-Melekh that was scheduled to take place at Haifa University was cancelled. There is a similar conference scheduled to take place next week, Dec. 12, at Hebrew Univesity. Some people are trying to lobby the university to make sure that it doesn’t become a [...]
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