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The Torah Learning Library of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah

Category: Halakha & Modernity

Mezuzot: Divine Protection or Human Perfection?

In the Time of Coronavirus

The mitzvah of mezuzah appears at the end of this week’s parasha in what we know of as the second paragraph of Shema: “And you shall write them (these words) on the doorposts of your house and of your gates.” (Deut.…

Go Easy on the Kids? Children and Tisha B’Av

Rabbi Avram Schwartz and Rabbi Haggai Resnikoff
(Posted on July 28, 2020)
From the Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies

Rabbi Moshe Feinstein zt”l (1895-1986) was the preeminent posek for North American Jewry for most of the 20th century, both for the yeshivish and Modern Orthodox communities. Rav Moshe was born in Russia in 1895, where he served as rabbi making great personal sacrifices on behalf of his community until he emigrated to the U.S.…

On Feminine Depictions of God in Tanakh

by Rabbi Tzvi Sinensky
Posted on July 20, 2020

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Do the Prophets Have Free Will?

by Rabbi Dan Margulies
Posted on July 20, 2020

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The Mishkan: A ‘Mini Mt. Sinai’ or a ‘Kosher Golden Calf’

by Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
Posted on July 20, 2020

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Morality of the Torah and Contemporary Morality

by Rabbi Hayyim Angel
Posted on July 20, 2020

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Eikhah 3 and the Court of Law

by Dr. Shalom Holtz
Posted on July 20, 2020

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Towards a Definition of Tefillah

by Dr. Shalom Holtz
Posted on July 20, 2020

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Protecting the Widow: Legal Institutions in Megillat Ruth

by Dr. Yael Landman Wermuth
Posted on July 20, 2020

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Will the Real Shabbat Please Stand Up: The Sabbath in the Two Versions of the Aseret Hadibrot

by Rabbi Dov Linzer
Posted on July 19, 2020

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Androgynous Myth The Creation of Adam and Eve in Peshat and the Midrashic Tradition

by Rabbi Tzvi Sinensky
Posted on July 19, 2020

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Tanakh and Superstition: Debates Within Traditional Commentaries

by Rabbi Hayyim Angel
Posted on June 30, 2020

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