Oqimta: Studies in Talmudic and Rabbinic Literature
The inaugural issue of Oqimta is now available online. Oqimta is a digitized research journal devoted to all spheres and types of talmudic and rabbinical literature – in Jewish law and exegesis.
The inaugural issue of Oqimta is now available online. Oqimta is a digitized research journal devoted to all spheres and types of talmudic and rabbinical literature – in Jewish law and exegesis.
In response to a motion of no confidence, Ruth Calderon teaches some Mishnah from the Knesset podium. (HT)
Below is a video of MK Ruth Calderon’s recent talk at JTS. (HT to Yossi Hoffman on Twitter)
Makor Rishon’s Musaf Shabbat has a very interesting interview (Hebrew) with Daniel Sperber. Much of the interview discusses Judaism’s attitude toward Eastern religions and a recent book by Sperber that discusses this question. It also includes Sperber describing his days in Yeshivat Hebron and his own backpacking trip to India.
From the THE BLOG OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH LAW Review of Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Demonic Desires: ‘Yetzer Hara’ and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 264 pages. $69.95 By Jason Rubenstein jasonbassirubenstein-at-gmail.com Ishay Rosen-Zvi’s Demonic Desires: ‘Yetzer Hara’ and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity is an [...]
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 [...]
Haym Soloveitchik reviewed Talia Fishman’s book Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures in the Jewish Review of Books. Fishman’s response and Soloveitchik’s rejoinder can be found here. See a more detailed rejoinder by Soloveitchik here. It ain’t pretty.
This video has some interesting footage and photos from the life of Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef. For Maranologists, at 30 seconds there seems to be footage for a pocket version of his responsa Yabia Omer. Maybe this was the first printing.
Am Ha-Sefer, a blog in Hebrew that focuses on Hebrew books and printing, has a new post about references to the Black Death in rabbinic literature and the effect of the Black Death on Jews and anti-Semitism.
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