Revach has a post about placing the eating hot food on Shabbat in the context of Rabbinic polemics against those who opposed the eating of hot food on Shabbat, beginning with the Sadducees. (hat tip) See this post from Chabad for a similar interpretation. While there is an explicit discussion of Sadducean [...]
With God’s Help,
Wednesday of the week which ends with the reading of the Torah portion “Vayigash elav Yehudah,” in the year 5696 [Jan. 1, 1936]
To the honored Rabbinerin Frau Rivka of the family of Jonas.
I heard the good news and have rejoiced over the good that the Eternal has done for you. This matter [...]
Haaretz has an article about the role that the internet is having on the kippah serugah, the “knitted-kippah” or National-Religious, community in Israel. Rabbi Yuval Cherlow is interviewed about the effect of the internet on religious authority (see here and here),
According to him, open discussion on Web sites among the religious community undermines certain [...]
See the informative series on R. David Tzvi Hoffman at Ishim ve-Shitot-here, here, here, here, and here.
One comment on this important rabbinic figure. In Alexander Marx’s chapter on R. Hoffman in his Essays in Jewish Biography (pp. 190-191), Marx writes the following about Hoffman.
In teaching Codes he would go back to first sources; but [...]
Haaretz has more on attempts to set up an alternative Rabbinic court system.
At a recent conference which addressed society’s attitude towards those with disabilities, R. Benny Lau again showed why he is one of the most important voices in the Israeli religious world. So far only a Hebrew version is available on Ynet here, hopefully an English version will soon be posted. See these previous posts [...]
Orin Kerr has a post at the Volokh Conspiracy in which he asks “Who Would Barack Obama Nominate to the Supreme Court?” Kerr brings a few quotes from Barack Obama regarding judges, one of which is,
I taught constitutional law for 10 years, and . . . when you look at what makes a great [...]
Once in a while one finds in a responsa a rabbi saying that they have something else to say, but that it is either better left unsaid, not appropriate for here, I don’t want to write more about it, etc. Sometimes it is just because they don’t want to digress from the question at [...]
Once in a while you come across a book which you say to yourself that you really should read, that it will probably help you understand certain things that you didn’t know before, or look at old truisms in a different light, but often you don’t get around to reading the book. Maybe you’re [...]
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