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  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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….

  • Partnership Prayer and the Essence of Orthodoxy
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/08/partnership-prayer-and-the-essence-of-orthodoxy/

    …as a sacrifice. The Sages viewed the concern for human dignity to be sufficient grounds to permit woman to lean on their offering. Put in legal terms, the case is…

  • Yom Kippur – “To Be a Kid Again”
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/yom-kippur-to-be-a-kid-again/

    …Jewish population that, outside of Orthodox circles, tends to terminate Jewish education precisely when the main thrust of Judaism is beginning to become relevant. To be certain, a ten year…

  • Yom Kippur – Committing to Torah
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/yom-kippur-committing-to-torah/

    …[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

  • An Open Letter Of A Modern Orthodox Rabbi To The Ou’s Ban On Orthodox Women Rabbis
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/04/an-open-letter-of-a-modern-orthodox-rabbi-to-the-ous-ban-on-orthodox-women-rabbis/

    …rule. However, some within Orthodoxy invoke “Tradition” as if this term refers to a specific legal rule, without defining its parameters, to be invoked when all other claims fail. In…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Parashat Ki Teitzei
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/parashat-ki-teitzei/

    …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…

  • “Orthodox” Is Not A Trademark Of The OU
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/02/orthodox-is-not-a-trademark-of-the-ou/

    …further that Open Orthodoxy has a legitimate claim on the term “Orthodox.” The full article can be read here. I am only tangentially invested in this debate, since I prefer…