Category: Gender, Marriage & Family

Rachel’s Cry: Single Women and Pru U’rvu

Amy Pollak (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?…

Rachel’s Cry: Single Women and Pru U’rvu (Hebrew)

Amy Pollak (Posted on April 19, 2018)
From the Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies

To read this teshuva in english click here:…

May A Single Man Fulfill The Mitzvah Of Pru U’rvu (procreation)? (Hebrew)

Amy Pollak (Posted on March 8, 2018)
From the Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies

…

Marriage for People with Down Syndrome

by Rabbi Dov LinzerPosted on July 31, 2017

This is a shiur that Rabbi Linzer gave at the Young Israel of Sharon, MA, on July 26, 2017. Click on the following audio link to listen to the shiur and follow along with the sources below: https://library.yctorah.org/wp-content/audio/SBM2017RabbiLinzerFellowsShiur.mp3 1.…

Who Teaches Torah to Your Nation Israel

by Rabbi Dov LinzerPosted on April 4, 2017

This is a speech delivered by Rabbi Dov Linzer at the YCT Annual Tribute Dinner in March 2017 Barukh atah Hashem ha’melamed Torah li’amo Yisrael. Blessed are You God who teaches Torah to your nation, Israel. This second birkhat ha’Torah follows אשר קדשנו במצותיו וצונו לעסוק בדברי תורה, the mitzvah-blessing for Torah study.…

The Bond and the Desire: Marriage and Family in A Postmodern World in the Thought of Rav Shagar (Hebrew)

by Rabbi Yair DreyfussPosted on December 2, 2016

…

Torah Study for Women in the Thought of Rav Shagar (Hebrew)

by Rabbanit Dr. Michal TikochinskyPosted on December 2, 2016

…

Mother’s Milk: A Psychoanalyst Looks at Breastfeeding

by Michelle Friedman, MDPosted on November 8, 2016

To read Mother’s Milk: A Psychoanalyst Looks at Breastfeeding, click here.…

“This isn’t what anyone expected….”

by Michelle Friedman, MDPosted on November 7, 2016

Sara, 23, and Raphael, 28 just became parents of a much wanted baby boy. The brit was a joyous event but Raphael noticed that his wife was distant and preoccupied throughout the morning. Over the following weeks, Sara, usually a cheerful, easy going and very social young woman, seemed more and more changed.…

Page 1 of 312 3 »