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  • For Coronavirus Shortened Minyanim, Daven Through Yishtabach At Home
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/2020/06/for-coronavirus-shortened-minyanim-daven-through-yishtabach-at-home/

    …נא, ובהרד”א ועוד. וע’ בהגהות מהר”ץ חיות (מגילה יב:) שזה אחד מן המאמרים שהוזכרו בראשונים בשם הירושלמי ולא נמצאו בירוש’ שלפנינו. [5] The term פורס את שמע means to recite…

  • The Jps Torah Commentary: Deuteronomy – A Review Essay
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/2020/07/the-jps-torah-commentary-deuteronomy-a-review-essay/

    …God in less physical terms than do the earlier books of the Torah” (xiii) covenant: “Deuteronomy emphasizes this metaphor so frequently that it was later referred to (in 2 Kings…

  • Abortion, Halakhah, and Civil Society
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/2020/08/abortion-halakhah-and-civil-society/

    …I would add that requiring a woman to endure significant anguish to carry a fetus to term is also morally debatable. However, NCJW seem to conclude without warrant that this…

  • Vezot Haberachah – Tug of War
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/vezot-haberachah-tug-of-war/

    …originally meant “the decisive contest; the real struggle or tussle; a severe contest for supremacy”. Only in the 19th century was it used as a term for an athletic contest…

  • Manalapan’s Congregation Sons of Israel Restores Mechitza and Orthodox Affiliation
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/press/manalapans-congregation-sons-of-israel-restores-mechitza-and-orthodox-affiliation/

    …Israel in Manalapan have demonstrated conclusively that their passion for the preservation of their shul overrules their own personal choices. Three long-term members and leaders of the synagogue—Bonnie Leff, chair…

  • Rosh Hashanah: MicroMitzvot
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/rosh-hashanah-micromitzvot/

    …needs, one of the latest buzzwords is the term “microloan,” small loans designed to help people get on their feet and spark their economic potential. Today, I am advocating for…

  • Yom Kippur – Her Lips Moved, But Her Voice Was Not Heard: What The Physical Elements of Jewish Prayer Teach Us About Our Relationship With God
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/yom-kippur-her-lips-moved-but-her-voice-was-not-heard-what-the-physical-elements-of-jewish-prayer-teach-us-about-our-relationship-with-god/

    …seems to have been a deliberate attempt by many of the Talmudic rabbis to limit the bowing ritual, both in terms of its frequency and in terms of how emphatically…

  • Pouring out your Heart: Rabbi Nachman’s Hitbodedut and its Piaseczner Reverberations
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/2023/06/pouring-out-your-heart-rabbi-nachmans-hitbodedut-and-its-piaseczner-reverberations/

    …though R. Kalonymus does not explicitly mentionR. Nachman or his writings, and does not always use the technical term hitbodedut, it is clear both from textual evidence and outside testimonythat…

  • Bereshit 5784/2023 – Optimistic About the Future
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/bereshit-5784-2023-optimistic-about-the-future/

    …it’s not in the Bible. Tanach does not formally have a word for soldiers (occasionally, the descriptive term “Ish Tzava”, “Army Man” is used). Ben Yehuda’s idea can be seen…

  • Yom Kippur – All I Really Need To Know I Learned from Coach Kozak
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/yom-kippur-everything-i-ever-needed-to-know-i-learned-from-coach-kozak/

    …we hear a lot about. We often talk about kavanah in terms of prayer and, at least for me, I have tended to think about it in terms of how…

  • Eating in a Vegetarian Restaurant
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/responsa/eating-in-a-vegetarian-restaurant/

    …to use the term as they wish.” Further, different certifying agencies to which a vegetarian restaurant may subscribe have differing standards. And there is no governmental body that oversees vegetarian…

  • HaChodesh – Those Were the Days
    https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/hachodesh-those-were-the-days/

    …the Torah as well. Confronting personal and national history often requires us to come to terms with ‘the good old days’, when the truth of yesterday can be obscured by…