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  • Books
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    …Gershon Bacon Amazon search for Gershon Bacon The Politics of Tradition: Agudat Yisrael in Poland, 1916-1939 Professor Reuven Kimelman Amazon search for Reuven Kimelman The Mystical Meaning of “Lekhah Dodi”…

  • Response to Rabbi Alan J. Yuter Regarding Live Stream Megillah During Quarantine
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/2020/03/response-to-rabbi-alan-j-yuter-regarding-live-stream-megillah-during-quarantine/

    term to mean any form of reproduced sound, including an echo. Indeed, a number of translators render the term as “echo” (see e.g. Soncino Talmud). However, Marcus Danby renders the…

  • What Does the Word Pesach (פסח) Mean?
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/2022/04/what-does-the-word-pesach-mean/

    …understanding of the term, as compared to understandings of “protect” or “skip over.” It seems to me that the understandings of “protect” and “to have compassion” are relatively close to…

  • A Kohen Marrying a Zonah
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    …(yikahu) a woman who has been divorced by her husband; for each one [kohen] is holy to his God” (Lev. 21:7). The term “take” (kihah) signifies “marriage” (see Kiddushin 2a;…

  • Bereshit 5784/2023 – Is God Master of Wars?
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/bereshit-5784-2023-is-god-master-of-wars-2/

    …was a term used to portray the divine as a Warrior god. This conception of the deity was borrowed from the widespread tribal conception in the Ancient Near East that…

  • Observing the Second Day of Yom Tov in Israel and the Diaspora When One is a Visitor
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/responsa/observing-the-second-day-of-yom-tov-in-israel-and-the-diaspora-when-one-is-a-visitor/

    …to impose on itself a stringency; in that case, a person who comes to that town must observe that stringency, even if he intends to return to his home, so…

  • The term Halakhah and Its Implications for Jewish Life – Lieberman Yahrzeit Lecture
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  • Shoftim – What Does Halakhah Mean?
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    …halakhah.[5] He noted that while the term certainly has some sense of fixture, the term “boundary” also provided for the possibility of a range of options within those boundaries. I…

  • The Haftarah for Yom Kippur Morning
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/09/haftarah-for-yom-kippur-morning/

    Please note that the text below is included for search engine purposes, but the best way to view this document is through the pdf embedded above (or reachable here) as…

  • Rosh Hashanah: Choosing Life or Self-Censorship: Shmirat Halashon In the 21st Century
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    …Coming from “cerebro,” meaning the brain and atmosphere, according to the hilarious “Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook,”[1] this is the politically correct term for an “airhead.” Other entertaining entries…

  • The Adoption of Non-Jewish Children
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    …as an institution. In fact, as Rabbi Louis Ginzberg points out (Students. Scholars. and Saints, Philadelphia, 1928, p. 123), the modern Hebrew term for adoption (imutz) does not appear in…

  • Rabbi David Weiss Halivni @ 90
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/03/rabbi-david-weiss-halivni-90/

    …this man, whose son is so learned, whose reputation for greatness so dazzling, and whose voluminous Talmudic research has set the agenda of Talmudic scholarship to this day? Born in…