…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…
…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,…
…[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….
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…[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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…