December 18, 2025
Chaim Strauchler profiles Thomas Mann’s “The Magic Mountain” which depicts a world where time, agency, and moral responsibility erode, symbolized by illicit gambling. Strauchler suggests that this culture of passivity mirrors today’s rise in youth gambling and reflects a broader loss of faith in cause-and-effect pathways to success. Jewish historical and contemporary parallels, from Haredi lotteries to R. Leon Modena’s Hanukka-season gambling, show how magical thinking emerges when predictable structures falter. Hanukka ultimately calls us back to courageous agency.
December 15, 2025
This week we’ll celebrate Shabbat, Rosh Hodesh, Hanukka—and all readers of TRADITION know what that means: It's Mrs. Cooperman’s Shabbat and a chance to check in with our distinguished editor emeritus, Rabbi Emanuel Feldman.
December 11, 2025
You’ve heard of Einstein’s theory of Spacetime Relativity. But have you heard of R. Moshe Feinstein’s approach to the relativity of time? Check out Moshe Kurtz’s breakdown of the unique approach to zmanim that is introduced in the responsa of the Iggerot Moshe.
December 8, 2025
In 1935 a then 22-year-old Moshe Zvi Neria was eyewitness to the only meeting between Rabbi Soloveitchik and Rav Kook. Years later he reminisced with R. Soloveitchik and published a record of those memories. As we mark R. Neria’s 30th yahrzeit today, read Jeffrey Saks’ presentation of that encounter between the Rav and HaRav.
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