February 27, 2025

Unpacking the Iggerot: Smoking

R. Feinstein issued a surprising series of lenient rulings vis-a-vis the question of smoking. Moshe Kurtz, in this week’s edition of Unpacking the Iggerot, asks: What would he say today? The answer is not as clear as some might think.
February 24, 2025

TRADITION Questions: What Counts?

In advance of the arrival of the month of Adar (and a week ahead of our reading of Parashat Shekalim), Chaim Strauchler questions what we choose to count in Jewish communal life. How does “modern” Jewish counting bias communal life? Does it cause us to fail to see those who do not fit traditional family models?
February 20, 2025

Editor’s Note: Remembering Rav Teitz

Jeffrey Saks uses the Editor’s Note to share some memories of Rav Elazar Meir Teitz zt”l, his warmth and humor, adding some color to the very many well-deserved tributes that properly praised his rabbinic leadership and phenomenal legacy as a manhig, talmid hakham, and posek.
February 19, 2025

Finding Virtue in the Laws of Slaves

In this week's Parashat Mishpatim, we read of the institution of slavery and its attendant obligations on how the master must treat the servant. Maimonides extends this obligation of compassion even to Canaanite slaves. Yet, as Mois Navon reveals in his recent TRADITION essay, the significance of this law goes far beyond slavery and encapsulates Maimonides’ entire program for not only moral development but human perfection itself.
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