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.…
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 Aryeh Klapper (Posted on June 18, 2018) From the Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies
Introduction
“Halakhic infertility” occurs when observance of hilkhot niddah results in a woman ovulating only during the days that wife and husband are forbidden to be physically intimate. These situations result from post-biblical stringencies that lengthen the time of prohibition.
This article discusses whether a couple may cease observing one such stringency, the humra di’R.…
May a husband hold his wife’s hand or give her a massage during childbirth, according to halakhah? We began to answer this question last week and came to the following interim conclusions:
A pregnant woman is not considered to be in niddah until either she experiences uterine bleeding (distinct from mere stains), or until a limb of the baby emerges from the womb. …
QUESTION: I am nine months pregnant, and my husband and I have been doing Lamaze classes to prepare for the birth of our baby. Part of the Lamaze method includes pressure massage and massage of the abdomen. I have been told, though, that it is forbidden by halakhah for my husband to do this because I will be in niddah at that time. …
Rabbanit Dr. Michal Tikochinsky (Posted on March 11, 2018) From the Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies
To read this teshuva in hebrew click here:
Introduction
Until the last generation, marriage and reproduction always went together. The only legitimate way of producing children was in the framework of marriage since non-marital sexual relationships are halakhically forbidden or, minimally, strongly discouraged.[1] In our generation, technologies have evolved that enable reproduction outside the context of marriage that do not cross these lines.…
Which sexual acts are permitted in a marriage? The answers might surprise you! Find out why co-host Dr. Bat Sheva Marcus calls this one of “the most important episodes” of the podcast. Plus we interview the creator of the hit YouTube series SOON BY YOU, Leah Gottfried, about the challenges of dating as an Orthodox Jew, and we introduce a new take on the Final Word.…
Rabbi Dov Linzer (Posted on December 28, 2017) From the Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies
In this episode, Dr. Marcus and Rabbi Linzer tackle female masturbation and interview Miryam Kabakov about Eshel, a group for LGBT Orthodox Jews. In the Q&A: is it permissible to talk “dirty?”This episode was recorded live at Limmud NY.
These sources accompany the third episode of the Joy of Text podcast.…
Rabbi Dov Linzer (Posted on December 27, 2017) From the Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies
IUDs, condoms, the pill, oh my! We break down the pros and cons of these and other common birth control methods and the halachic considerations that render some forms of contraception more acceptable than others. Then we hear from internationally renowned educator Rivkah Slonim, the Chabbad rebbetzin at SUNY Binghamton, about her three decades of teaching Jewish college students about sex and marriage.…
Rabbi Dov Linzer (Posted on November 14, 2017) From the Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies
Cautionary tales from the Talmud illustrate the power of sexual temptation to lead even the most revered rabbis astray… But do these stories make too much of desire? Hosts Rabbi Dov Linzer and Dr. Bat Sheva Marcus and moderator Rebecca Honig Friedman discuss a passage from Kiddushin 81a-b.…
