September 17, 2024
As we approach Simhat Torah and one turn around the calendar since last year’s trauma, how should we adjust our upcoming prayers and celebrations? Avraham Stav considers what it means to cycle through the familiarity of the Jewish year and its holidays when even the familiar returns to us with alienation.
September 16, 2024
TRADITION and the Rabbinical Council of America recently hosted R. Mosheh Lichtenstein, Rosh Yeshivat Har Etzion, for a conversation revisiting a classic essay from our archives: R. Aharon Lichtenstein zt”l, “The Ideology of Hesder” (Fall 1981), using it as a lens to explore contemporary issues in Israeli religious and civilian life and society and the particular challenges of the current war. Listen to a recording of the conversation on the Tradition Podcast.
September 15, 2024
With the arrival of Elul, Yitzchak Blau focuses our attention on two noteworthy new works on repentance: R. Michael Rosensweig “Mimini Mikhael” and R. Aharon Lichtenstein’s “Return and Renewal.” By bringing these volumes into conversation with each other he highlights one strong parallel and a number of intriguing contrasts between the works and their authors, offering us insights to the spiritual challenges that lie ahead for us all in the coming month.
September 12, 2024
Previously in "Unpacking the Iggerot" we reviewed R. Moshe Feinstein’s unequivocal objection to Kohanim attending medical school. This time around, Moshe Kurtz explores how R. Feinstein instead offers a novel leniency to enable Kohanim to fly to Israel…despite the halakhic challenges lurking beneath.
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