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  • Parshat Bechukotai – “Et Tu?”
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/parshat-bechukotai-et-tu/

    …[3]. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%AA [4]. I found this occurrence in about 5 minutes using a Bar Ilan search. Rashi had to do a manual search through all 24 books in the Tanach….

  • Reactions To Rabbi Gradofsky’s Response Regarding Telephonic Megillah Reading
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/2020/03/reactions-to-rabbi-gradofskys-response-regarding-telephonic-megillah-reading/

    …and possessing the learning, courage, and integrity to seek the absolute “truth” as a finite, mortal human being in search of the Numinous Ding en sich, the “thing-in-itself,” to approximate…

  • Ekev – Renewing Classical Debates in Judaism
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/parashat-ekev/

    …all be privileged to continue the search for a balance between Torah and livelihood, between engaging in society and protecting our beliefs. May the search for this balance in our…

  • The Abortion Debate: What Exactly is at Stake?
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/2022/06/the-abortion-debate-what-exactly-is-at-stake/

    …or not to carry her pregnancy to term. A draft of a Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was penned by the politically conservative Associate Justice Samuel Alito. Roe…

  • What is a Legitimate Opinion, and What is at Stake in the Conversation
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/responsa/what-is-a-legitimate-opinion-and-what-is-at-stake-in-the-conversation/

    …the authors of the piyyut liturgy were “gedolei Yisroel,” “the great one’s of Israel,” a term that as we contend confers upon its bearer the valence of implicit covenantal canonicity…

  • Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/parashat-vayakhel-pekudei/

    In an unusual locution, the outer altar upon which the sacrifices are offered is called by the Torah Kodesh Kodashim, holy of holies. Previously, the term “holy of holies” was…

  • Parashat Beha’alotekha: As Long as the Candle is Burning
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/parashat-behaalotekha-as-long-as-the-candle-is-burning/

    …of our Torah reading, Rashi notes that the Torah does not use the conventional term for lighting the menorah (le-hadlik) but the less common term leha’alot (to cause to rise)….

  • Height of a Mehitzah
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/responsa/height-of-a-mehitzah/

    …must be higher than the usual meaning of this term taken from Sabbath law. His conclusion is that it should be shoulder height when the women are standing. The basis…

  • Omer Observances: Appropriate Abstinence or Excessive Restraint?
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/04/omer-observances/

    …the restrictions ending vis a vis haircutting, but intends both issues. – Regarding haircuts, the language used is “להסתפר,” which generally is not a term used to refer to shaving…

  • Being Single In A Marriage-Obsessed Community Is Tough — Whether You’re Jewish, Muslim Or Mormon
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/press/being-single-marriage-obsessed-community/

    …the term ‘shidduch crisis’ is used to describe a surplus of single community members. “I find that term deeply offensive,” said Dr. Sharon Weiss-Greenberg, executive director of JOFA, whose Facebook…

  • Shoftim: “The Space-Time Continuum”
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/shoftim-space-time/

    …the Biblical prohibition against moving a homeowner’s fencepost to morph into a grander rule beyond its original intent. Thus, the term “Hasagat G’vul” was used in Sifre (Devarim, 188) in…

  • Analysis of a Narrative related to Cultural Resiliency using a Framework for evaluating Personal Narrative
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/08/analysis-of-a-narrative-related-to-cultural-resiliency-using-a-framework-for-evaluating-personal-narrative/

    …can be reframed and expanded to encompass the traumatic experience, they can foster posttraumatic growth. Over the past three decades, an extensive body of research has emerged exploring the connection…