…inflammatory and insulting to the memories of the millions who perished in the Holocaust. … the term concentration camp, because of this horrific historical association, has become Holy, or set…
…term that rings oxymoronic to some if not most Orthodox readers. Cardozo is not blind to Spinoza’s shortcomings. He finds in Spinoza’s thought an intellectual arrogance, and that Spinoza’s thought…
…[2] Deuteronomy 27:26. [3] Rashi on Deuteronomy 27:26 (“כאן כלל את כל התורה כולה וקבלוה עליהם באלה ובשבועה”). [4] Ramban on Deuteronomy 27:26. Note that Ramban is explaining the term…
…cruelly, and painfully as possible. THE EXTREMIST ISLAMIC IDEOLOGY Hamas proclaims that it exemplifies Orthodox Islam. But its absolutist version of Islam, a military term meaning “surrender,” officially to…
…also searching the future genealogy of Egyptian taskmaster to see whether he would have any worthy offspring. Having concluded that nothing worthwhile would ever issue forth from this man, Moshe…
…we integrate the very first mitzvah (according to Maimonides), that of Believing in God, into our own personal search for spirituality in the 21st. century; how the mitzvah of Kibbud…
…recordings, which could not have been forbidden when the practice first evolved. Innovative stringency has become acceptable, even if the innovation violates Halakhic principle, because stringency valorizes religious heroism which…
…can literally see stars being born. The great search in modern physics, from Einstein to today, has been for a unified theory, one theory that would account for the entire…
…because he influenced his grandson to continue the search for better understandings of the text (see Rashbam Genesis 37:2). Those who simply assume Rashi’s interpretation of a text is correct,…
…understood best in utilitarian, or, if you like, political terms; group-survival being identified with fixity and standardization. That is why where standardization and continuity are enthroned, halakhah turns into politico-halakhicsm…
…indicate any variant texts. For the text in Sanhedrin 105b he notes that manuscripts פ and ק do not have the word mitzvot. Quickly searching the Bar Ilan Responsa CD…
…I had the Bar Ilan Responsa CD burned onto my hard drive, and I could perform sophisticated word searches of the Talmud. Students would sometimes ask the type of question…