Thinking about work, the great resignation. or your empty office building? Erica Brown opens Ecclesiastes for perspectives on the limits of work and what we seek to gain from our professional lives in the first place. Read more on Kohelet and quiet quitting in advance of Sukkot.

During these 10 Days of Teshuva we mark 50 years since the Yom Kippur War. TRADITION's most recent issue contains a cluster of articles and essays exploring the theological, national, and communal impact of that nearly calamitous episode in modern Jewish history on the State of Israel, world Jewry, and on Religious Zionism. Sample open-access content by R. Yehuda Amital zt”l and R. Haim Sabato. Join TRADITION readers for a special in-person event in Jerusalem this Wednesday exploring our special issue in advance of Yom Kippur.

The establishment of the Jewish State in 1948 introduced previously unimaginable questions for halakha and Jewish religious life — most relevantly in terms of statehood and governance. Aviad Tabory’s "State of Halakha" (Maggid Books) is best understood through its subtitle: “Israel’s history in Jewish law.” Sruli Fruchter, in reviewing the work, says the book shows that “halakha always has something to say. And in Israel’s case, we have the ability to listen.”

The recent republication of TRADITION’s twenty-five year-old symposium on “The Sea Change in American Orthodox Judaism” generated a “looking back” on the part of some of those original 35 authors. Marc D. Angel and Judith Bleich each stands by his and her opinions of a quarter century ago.

In "Perpetuating the Masorah" (Maggid Books & OU Press) we meet Rabbi Yitzhak, not Professor Isadore, Twersky—an expositor par excellence of Torat Hashem, delivering eternal wisdom to his faithful followers, not to his academic seminar room. That he could straddle these two worlds speaks volumes to his intellect and personality. Todd Berman reviews…