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 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?…
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:
1. This couple with Down’s syndrome are celebrating 22 years of marriage– Metro UK
They were criticized 22 years ago for wanting to get married.…
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.…
