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• Who Do We Pasken Like?
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/08/who-do-we-pasken-like/

  …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,…

• Beha’alotecha – Challenging the Status Quo
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/behaalotecha-challenging-the-status-quo/

  …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…

• A Person Should Always Engage in Torah ???and Mitzvot?? Even If It Is Not For Its Own Sake
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2021/09/for-its-own-sake/

  …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…

• Professor Barry Wimpfheimer Remembers Rabbi Halivni
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2022/08/professor-barry-wimpfheimer-remembers-rabbi-halivni/

  …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…

• Yom Kippur – Finding Yourself by Imitating Others
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/yom-kippur-finding-yourself-by-imitating-others/

  …above footnote 4. [7] John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America, 3, 1961, Quoted in Quotationary by Ed. Frank Leonard Roy under “Imitation.” [8] Above footnote 1. [9]…

• Rebuilding the Jewish People: A New Option
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2023/01/rebuilding-the-jewish-people-a-new-option/

  …toward Judaism. New Jewish communities are emerging in Africa which proclaim descent from the Lost Tribes or who have found that their search for religious truth has led them to…

• Rabbi Halivni on Revelation: A Phenomenological Perspective
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2024/06/rabbi-halivni-on-revelation-a-phenomenological-perspective/

  …is different from the search for chronologically prior causes. Let me explain. The French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (d. 1961) put it this way in the preface to his most important…

• A Week of Remembrances for Six Hostages
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2024/09/a-week-of-remembrances-for-six-hostages/

  …encourage everyone to take a moment each day to study some text and to learn about each of the six hostages. You can follow the links below or search on…

• Book Review on Divrei Halev
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/press/book-review-on-divrei-halev/

  …a once-in-a-generation scholar, best known for his magnum opus Mekorot u’Mesorot, in which he analyzed Talmudic manuscripts in search of the original and authentic rendition of the text. In Divrei…

• Concerning the Marriage of a Minor Girl
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/responsa/concerning-the-marriage-of-a-minor-girl/

  …contract a marriage for his minor daughter. For this use of the term mitzvah, see, e.g., Zevahim 48a; Y. Pesahim 2:4/29b. Cf. Yevamot 20a and parallels.). Furthermore, a father is…

• Parashat Bo
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/parashat-bo-2/

  This parashah includes one of the most interesting parts of the Torah’s narrative, because it makes no real sense unless God is being spiteful, or has a long-term plan. Hashem…

• Kadesh u’R’chatz – 14 Steps or 15 Steps?
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/kadesh-urchatz-14-steps-or-15-steps/

  …or steps. The same term – Ma’alot – are used in the preface to the song Dayenu. “Cama Ma’alot Tovot Aaleinu!” This indicates that each step from Ilu hotzianu is…