Quiz Runoff
…Metzitza. I attended Rav Aharon Lichtenstein’s shiurim at Gruss for a number of years, and I clearly remember what he said on the subject during what the guys called “a…
Rav Kook’s Attitude towards Keren Hayesod – United Israel Appeal
…item in the newspaper Dos Idishe Licht (May 23, 1924), according to which Rav Kook refused to support a proposal raised at the American Union of Rabbis to boycott Keren…
The Future of Israeli Haredi Society: Can The Written Word Offer Some Insight? (And Assorted Other Comments)
…mentioned that we don’t know if Kasher was responsible for the forgery (as Weinman appears to think) or someone else. Sholom Licht was kind enough to call my attention to this…
Shavuah ha-Sefer 2008: A Recommended Reading List
…beautiful critical edtion of Mishnayis Shevies from professors S. and Z. Safrai. Other works of note include ha-Mavad Atzmos la-Daat by Y. Lichtenstein all about suicide. Another book from the…
Answers to Quiz Questions and Other Comments, part 2
…R. Ovadiah, see here. [21] See Yabia Omer, vol. 5, Orah Hayyim no. 37, Yehaveh Da’at, vol. 1, no. 9, vol. 5 no. 32. [22] R. Aharon Lichtenstein also has…
Open Orthodoxy and Its Main Critic, part 1
…it. It also contains essays on R. Kook, R. Isaac Herzog, Nehama Leibowitz, R. Immanuel Jakobovits, R. Yehuda Amital, R. Aharon Lichtenstein, R. Norman Lamm, and Prof. Isadore Twersky. For…
Rabbi Steinman and the Messiah, part 3
…in Yair Kahn and Kalman Neuman, “A Rabbinic Exchange on the Disengagement: A Case Study in R. Aharon Lichtenstein’s Approach to Hilkhot Tsibbur,” Tradition 47 (Winter 2014), pp. 161-162, 185-186,…
Review of Rav Zvi Hirsch Grodzinsky’s Taharas Yisroel
…writing what has come into my net [arhiv be-nafshi oz lichtov mah she-alah be-metzudasi], but I am writing only for the purposes of study and not le-halacha, considering only as…
A Note Regarding Dayan Simcha Zelig Rieger’s View of Opening a Refrigerator Door on Shabbat
…argument can be found in his Minchat Shlomo pp. 77-91. Others who are lenient include Rabbi Waldenberg,Tzitz Eliezer 8:12 and 12:92, Rabbi Uziel, Piskei Uziel no. 15. Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein reports that Rabbi Joseph B….
Screen for the Spirit, Garment for the Soul
…Lichtenstein and R. Shagar”, Shma’atin Journal vol. 136 (Nissan 1998); also appearing in Meimad, Vol. 17, August 1999; see further the synopsis and translation by Rachel Schloss for the Lookstein…
R. Moshe Zuriel, the Aderet, Sonya Diskin, and ChatGPT
…spelled it עקיבה. [6] Seder Eliyahu, pp. 102, 106 (including it among the books he wrote). [7] Trans. Moshe D. Lichtman (Jerusalem, 2003), pp. 368-369. [8] Mishnah Berurah, Sha’ar ha-Tziyun,…
Candles on Yom Kippur: Reinstating a Lost Minhag
…the synagogue to be the standard, widely practiced, custom. Mateh Ephraim even records its Yiddish moniker, dos gezunteh licht – the light of health and well-being (603:8). And yet in…
Marc B. Shapiro – Forgery and the Halakhic Process
…by Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein. Licthenstein’s father-in-law, Rabbi Joseph Baer Soloveitchik (of Boston) expressed to Rabbi [Hayyim] Heller his amazement that the same obscure opinion of Mordecai in Niddah was to…
New Seforim and Books 2015
…the Missing 168 Years, Mosaica Press, 256 pp. 7. Dovid Lichtenstein, Headlines: Halachic Debates of Current Events, OU Press, 462 pp. 8. Elisheva Baumgarten, Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz, Penn…