Today’s Daf Yomi (Horayot 13a) implies that halakhic triage obligates one to save a man before a woman. The issue has significant ethical implications for contemporary medicine—who takes precedence for ICU admission in modern hospitals, or who should emergency responders treat first at the scene of an accident or after a terrorist attack? Revisit Alan Jotkowitz’s TRADITION essay surveying a variety of approaches to this complicated case of medical ethics. 

In remembering the renowned educator, R. David Ebner zt”l, who passed away this week, his student David Rozenson paints a portrait of a man who did not “rage against the dying of the light,” but searched, taught, sang, danced, and wrote, and in so doing helped countless talmidim to navigate the Daf of Life.

Sometimes we forget that others looked at problems we face and sugyot we study long before we arrived. Avraham Stav shares the message of the IDF’s really lousy can openers distributed with the army’s combat rations—and its message for anyone sitting in front of an open Gemara, contemplating how the unfamiliar sometimes appears to our naive or cynical eyes as strange.