New Book: The Living Tree: Studies in Modern Orthodoxy by Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin’s new book, The Living Tree: Studies in Modern Orthodoxy, has just appeared. The Seforim Blog is happy to present this selection from it. Halakhic Pluralism in the Eyes of Rishonim and Aharonim In many of the off-hand remarks of the early commentators, their advocacy of the principle of halakhic pluralism is plain to see, regardless of whether these great authorities stemmed from Ashkenaz, Sepharad, or Provence. They repeatedly express the pluralistic principle of “these and those are…
