Letters to the Editor

JEWISH THOUGHT

Debating and Defining Da’as Torah: A Response to Rabbi Rakeffet-Rothkoff

Stewart Rubin

A Response to Rabbi Oratz’s Critique of Rabbi Rakeffet-Rothkoff’s Analysis of Daas Torah

Asher Benzion Buchman

A Coherent Universe of Rabbi Meir Simchah: A Philosophical System Guiding Halachah, Exegesis, and Leadership

Chaim Oscar Jacob

How Aish Kodesh Approached German Invincibility and Superiority

Dov Fischer

Covenantal Marriage as a Therapeutic Model for Marital Conflict and Divorce in Orthodox Communities

Aryeh Dienstag

JEWISH LAW

Use of a Sefer Torah in Women’s Hakafot and Torah Readings: Part 1 – Hakafot

Aryeh A. Frimer and Dov I. Frimer

From ‘Living Will’ to Conversations with Your Proxy: A New Model for Halakhic Advanced Healthcare Planning

Shlomo Brody and Jason Weiner

TALMUD TORAH

The King

Asher Benzion Buchman

Walled City; Holy City: Kedushat ‘Arei Ḥomah, Shushan Purim and the Megillah’s Alternate Endings

Aton M. Holzer

Guilty According to Laws of Heaven, חייב בדיני שמים

Yisroel Cohen

Torah and Science

Torah and Science According to Leibowitz and Rabbi Soloveitchik

Ezequiel Antebi Sacca

Science in the Torah

Natan Kopeika

Seforim

Introducing Issur ve-Heter, a Comprehensive pre-Maimonidean Halakhic Compendium in Judaeo-Arabic

Y. Tzvi Langermann

Moses Mat (Marbitzei Torah) of Przemysl: His Varied Valuable Works

Marvin J. Heller

 The Language of the Faithful: A Monograph About the Character and Importance of Hebrew by Barukh Ha-Levi Epstein from Pinsk

Wallace Greene

A Mistake Which Remained for Over 100 Years

Eli Genauer

Minhag

Havdalah Wine Applied to the Eyes and Other Locations

Zvi Ron

HEBREW ARTICLES