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Balancing the Necessity and Abhorrence of Violence: Of Terrorists and Amalek by Gidon Rothstein
Balancing the Necessity and Abhorrence of Violence: Of Terrorists and Amalek Tu B’Shvat goes by, a holiday that continues to grow in popularity, especially as the environmental movement takes further hold (we hope), as we...
Read more of this articlePolemics and the Orthodox Prohibition Against Microphones on Shabbat by Shlomo Brody
What does Rabbi Yisrael Rozen, the engineer who runs the Tzomet Institute and who frequently speaks on behalf of religious Zionist causes, have in common with the Satmar Rebbe? They both care tremendously about halakha They...
Read more of this articleThe Bones of Yosef by Nathaniel Helfgot
The Torah, in an apparent aside at the beginning of Parashat Beshallah (Ch. 13:19), informs us that as the Israelites were leaving Egypt, Moses recovered the bones of Joseph to fulfill the request/oath that Joseph had made the...
Read more of this articlePossible Answers to Rav Soloveitchik’s 1936 Final Exam in Jewish Philosophy by Alex Sztuden
Below are responses to Rav Soloveitchik’s Jewish Philosophy exam that R. Helfgot posted on Text and Texture. I have tried to tie in the responses with the Rav’s own works, supporting R. Helfgot’s contention...
Read more of this articleThe Self-Sacrifice of the Frogs: Halakha, Aggadata, and Martyrdom by Aryeh Klapper
תלמוד בבלי מסכת פסחים דף נג עמוד א –ב אמר רבי יוסי: תודוס איש רומי הנהיג את בני רומי לאכול גדיים מקולסין בלילי פסחים. שלחו לו:...
Read more of this articleMore Than Just a Line in Our Prayers: Remembering the Exodus by Gidon Rothstein
In the context of my Mission of Orthodoxy project, I recently noted that Orthodox Jewish men are required to twice daily recall the Exodus from Egypt. While Rambam does not count this as a separate mitzvah, he does include...
Read more of this article“It is Better for Man Not To Have Been Created”: Seven Years to the Terror Attack in Yeshivat Otniel
by Yakov Nagen During the course of the Shabbos meal of Parshat Shemot 5763 in the Hesder Yeshiva of Otniel, while the students danced and sang הודו לה’ כי טוב כי לעולם חסדו, terrorists entered the...
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