December 27, 2024
Hanukka’s requirement of “ner ish u-beyto” makes the candle-lighting mitzva a house-bound one. Avraham Stav, who wrote this dispatch last Hanukka from the Gaza border, asked how myriad Israeli soldiers dwelling in the field, and those Israelis displaced from their homes, help us reevaluate and expand the meaning of “bayit” as we light our candles.
December 26, 2024
Simple Hanukka lights seem insufficient to the scale of modern holiday celebrations. Many Jewish homes now contain displays similar to those of their gentile neighbors – but with Hanukka themes. Chaim Strauchler questions the motivation for these enhancements and what they say about this moment in American Jewish life.
December 24, 2024
Todd Berman uses an essay on Hanukka presented in a new English volume on the Jewish holidays to understand the challenging philosophy of R. Shimon Gershon Rosenberg (Shagar). The Hanukka lights function as a springboard to discuss the tension between the individual and tradition. “Living Time” is a book that offers insight into the mind of this iconoclastic Israeli thinker, a postmodern rabbi who has been both praised and criticized.
December 22, 2024
In a remarkable new essay appearing in TRADITION, Neti Penstein explores the interplay of halakhic sources in the writings of Maimonides, Rabbi Soloveitchik, and others, and brings her analysis of that wisdom to bear in offering a solution to a particular 50-year-old philosophical paradox about the meaning and mechanics of forgiveness. Penstein discusses her essay on the Tradition Podcast—and listeners will be reminded of the Rav’s closing remark in “The Halakhic Mind”: “Out of the sources of Halakhah, a new world view awaits formulation.”
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