Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Early Reform Responsa - Rabbi Dr Simon (Shimon Aryeh) Schwabacher

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Hebrewbooks.org has uploaded a fascinating sefer - תקנות עגונות . The Sefer (only volume two is available online - Update: Both volumes ar...

Some Links

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1 - Eitam Henkin has a great post on censorship in the new work of R' Kook L'Nevuchei HaDor. 2 - Kevin has an interesting comment ...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

This is scholarship...

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"Mr. Heilman maintained that Lubavitcher accounts can’t be trusted because they are hagiographies and said that he and Mr. Friedman d...
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Chafetz Chaim on the correct attitude to "Off the Derech" children

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ודע דעצה זו האמור בקרא כולל מור לכמה סוגי אגשים שהם אינם סריסים בעצם ואעפ״כ לא עדיפי מהם ואדרבה גדועים מהם כגון שיש לו בנים שסרו מדרך התורה ...
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Monday, June 7, 2010

Recent Publications, Tradition, TUMJ and the Rebbe

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1 - Tradition - has become more disappointing with each issue. It seems a pity that a publication which has published many fascinating artic...
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Chafetz Chaim and Chassidus

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Seforim has a nice post on Chafetz Chaim's attitude toward Chassidus. I am not certain why R' Brodt left out the following excerpts...
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

R' Kook on natural law and on the importance of open-mindedness

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Following is my inexact translation of the first part Chapter 22 of the recently leaked ms. of R' Kook לנבוכי הדור. See here for the ba...
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