July 18, 2022

Sources & Resources: No Guarantees in Life

July 18, 2022

Pinchas Roth, In This Land: Jewish Life and Legal Culture in Late Medieval Provence

July 18, 2022

Natan Slifkin, Rationalism vs. Mysticism: Schisms in Traditional Jewish Thought

July 17, 2022

REVIEW: The Sabbath of the Land

As we begin our observance of the Three Weeks we turn our attention to an exploration of the spiritual, halakhic, and ecological dimensions of shemitta presented in Yedidya J. Sinclair’s thoughtful new translation of “Shabbat HaAretz” by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (Maggid Books). Ariel Evan Mayse suggests that the volume is an extremely timely contribution, given the perilous potential ecological calamities humanity faces.