February 13, 2025
Balancing the needs for human economy and pleasure against sensitivity to animal life presents a delicate challenge. R. Moshe Feinstein’s halakhic rulings aim to demarcate the acceptable parameters of treating God's creatures. In this installment of “Unpacking the Iggerot” Moshe Kurtz takes us through R. Feinstein’s approach to these issues in his halakhic and homiletic writings.
February 10, 2025
Hyim Shafner considers the impact of what he calls “The Frum Prosperity Gospel” on Jewish life and values. Read his open-access essay from TRADITION’s most recent issue which responds to topics raised in our special Summit volume on “The Challenge of Material Success.”
February 6, 2025
AI tempts everyone, from the 6th grader facing a book report deadline to a Rabbi needing to prepare for Shabbat HaGadol. The promise of an easy shortcut is hard to resist. Josh Flug, in a guest installment of TRADITION Questions, considers the costs—in integrity, in the final product, and the damage done to “amelut” as a Jewish value.
February 3, 2025
The mailbag brought Aryeh Dienstag’s response to TRADITION’s Summit issue on materialism. He points out the irony that the career choices required to provide a Jewish education may themselves engender a lifestyle that undermines the very messages we hope to communicate to our children through that education.
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