Rabbi Dov Linzer (Posted on February 7, 2019) From the Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies
Halakhic Parameters of Abortion:
A Study Guide
Guided Questions for Chavruta Learning
Sources 1-7 were covered in the previous sheet. Look at sources 8-12. Do they indicate that a fetus has the legal status / protections of a human life or not? …
Rabbi Dov Linzer (Posted on January 25, 2019) From the Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies
These sources accompany the hair covering episode of the Joy of Text podcast.
A. Nature of Obligation
The verse in Numbers {source 1} implies that women (perhaps specifically married women) would normally have their head covered. This point is made explicit from Sifrei {source 2}, which emphasizes the fact that this was a norm, and does not frame it as an obligation. …
Rabbi Dov Linzer (Posted on December 26, 2018) From the Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies
These sources accompany the seduction episode of the Joy of Text podcast.
1. Shabbat, 140b
בבלי מסכת שבת דף קמ עמוד ב
אמר להו רב חסדא לבנתיה: תיהוי צניעתן באפי גברייכו, לא תיכלון נהמא באפי גברייכו, לא תיכלון ירקא בליליא, לא תיכלון תמרי בליליא, ולא תשתון שיכרא בליליא, ולא תיפנון היכא דמפני גברייכו.…
QUESTION: I am the father of a newborn beautiful baby boy. The bris is coming up in a few days. Since I have a mitzvah to give my son a bris, and the mohel is just an agent, is it better that I do the bris myself (after the mohel sets everything up, of course)?…
Rabbi Dov Linzer (Posted on July 11, 2018) From the Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies
On the Season 3 Finale we interview a Jewish woman who made the decision to be a surrogate and carry a child for someone else, with the support of her husband and their three young children. Carrie and Jamie Bornstein share personally and poignantly about what it means to help another couple become parents, and how their kids and their community dealt with this new reality.…
Rabbi David Bigman (Posted on May 2, 2018) From the Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies
To read this teshuva in hebrew click here:
Should community resources be allocated to help an older single woman become pregnant using artificial insemination?[1]
Rav Shlomo Aviner addresses this question as follows:
Question: A single woman, about forty years old, who realistically doesn’t expect to marry and wishes, with all her soul, to have a child to love and devote herself to – is she permitted halakhically to use artificial insemination to bear a child?…
Must a Person Honor and Mourn for an Abusive Parent?
The short answer is “no.” One of the core principles in halakha when it comes to our obligation to others is hayekha kodmin, meaning our first ethical obligation is to ourselves. …
May a Jew by choice sit shivah and say kaddish for their non-Jewish parent?
To answer this question we must address two issues: (1) What is halakhah’s view of the parent-child relationship in these cases? The gemara states, “A person who converts is like a newborn infant,” (Yevamot 22a).…
May a woman be a mohelet?
Although women are not circumcised, they are members of the covenant that the Jewish people, have with God:
“You stand this day all of you before the Lord your God.. all the men of Israel, your little ones, your wives, and the stranger that is in your camp… that you enter into covenant with the Lord your God…” (Deut.…