Mechon Hadar recently hosted a conversation between Rabbis Ethan Tucker and Shai Held about “The Future of Jewish Law and Theology.” The recording can be downloaded here. The audio gets better after a few minutes.
There’s a new blog on the web by Debby Koren, VaTashar Devora, which is described as “A blog about halakha, women and Judaism, Jewish family law, agunot.” After much urging and encouragement from my “fans” and friends, I am launching my blog, VaTashar Devora – ותשר דבורה (Judges 5,1). My primary focus is to discuss [...]
Another interesting book has recently been published, Elizabeth Shanks Alexander’s Gender and Timebound Commandments in Judaism. The rule that exempts women from rituals that need to be performed at specific times (so-called timebound, positive commandments) has served for centuries to stabilize Jewish gender. It has provided a rationale for women’s centrality at home and their [...]
I hardly know anything about tekhelet, but this from Green Prophet sounded interesting: According to a new paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society the ancient pigment known as Egyptian blue may have important new applications in nanotechnology. Researchers at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia in the US were surprised [...]
When addressing the parameters of fasting on one of the minor fast days, we read in the Gemara on Rosh ha-Shannah 18b: אמר רב חנא בר ביזנא אמר רב שמעון חסידא: מאי דכתיב (זכריה ח) כה אמר ה’ צבאות צום הרביעי וצום החמישי וצום השביעי וצום העשירי יהיה לבית יהודה לששון ולשמחה. קרי להו צום, [...]
Often opponents of halakhic innovation or change claim that their opposition is based upon the legal sources and that external factors such as human emotion are irrelevant to halakhic decision making. Last week Musaf Shabbat of Makor Rishon published an article (Hebrew) on the tenth yarzheit of Rabbi Shalom Messas, the former Chief Rabbi of [...]
There is a new blog that will be addressing issues related to Judaism in general and Jewish Law specifically. The blog, לאן הולכים מכאן, is in Hebrew and here a short description by בעל הבלוג. (HT) בשמחה, בתקווה ובחשש אני חונך את הבלוג הזה, שיעסוק בהלכה וגם ביהדות בכלל, באתגרים העומדים בפניהם בעולם המודרני, בכיוונים [...]
Vered Noam recently wrote an article in Hebrew about women and Jewish law in the Israeli National-Religious community. The article, which I wrote about here, caused quite a large amount of discussion. You can read the responses (H) that were published in Musaf Shabbat of Makor Rishon, or some of the close to seven hundred [...]
Here are two recently published books that may be of interest (HT): Amir Mashiah has published a book on Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, הלכה בתמורות הזמן במשנתו של הרב שלמה זלמן אוירבך. ספר מקיף זה עוסק בפילוסופיה של ההלכה של אחד מגדולי הפוסקים במאה העשרים. הרב שלמה זלמן אוירבך (1995-1910), שנולד, חי ופעל בשכונת ‘שערי [...]
Next Thursday in Jerusalem there will be a day-long seminar on Women in Jewish Law at Machon Schechter. מכון שכטר למדעי היהדות מזמין אתכם ליום עיון על מעמד האשה בהלכה לרגל הופעת ספרו של פרופ׳ דוד גולינקין ולזכרו של הרב נח גולינקין ז״ל במלאת עשר שנים למותו ביום חמישי, כ״ה אדר תשע״ג 7/3/13 בין השעות [...]
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