Volume 29

 

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Letters to the Editor

RAV YOSEF DOV SOLOVEITCHIK

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s Lectures on Genesis, VI through IX, Meir Triebitz 

The Rav’s Uncompleted Grand Design, David P. Goldman

COVID-19

Rabbinic Literature on Contagion and Disease, and How It Relates to Covid-19, Ari Greenspan     

Triage During the Covid-19 Pandemic:  A Halakhic Perspective, Alan Jotkowitz

JEWISH LAW

May Parents Waive the Requirements of Avelut?, Shlomo Brody

HISTORY OF HALAKHAH

Tosafot Tukh on the Talmud: R. Eliezer of Tukh’s Redaction of the French Tosafist Tradition, Aryeh Leibowitz

Male Body Hair Depilation in Jewish Law (download the appendices), Steven H. Adams

JEWISH THOUGHT

Mitzvas Kinui: Anna Karenina and Parashas Sotah, Asher Benzion Buchman

Honor Above All: The Paramount Value of Honor in the Thought of Abarbanel, Yitzhak Grossman

Between the Stōïkos and the Beth Midrash: A Philosophic and Ethical Comparative Analysis of Stoicism and Judaism, Stewart Rubin

TALMUD TORAH

HaMelech HaMishpat During the Aseres Yemei Teshuvah, Sheldon Epstein

Half of the Torah is a Chiasm: The Creation of the Chosen Nation (download the chiasm chart), David H. Schwartz

MINHAG

Ḥanukkah Gelt, Zvi Ron

Hoshanos: Changing a Community Custom, Steven Oppenheimer

 

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