Category: Source Sheets

Are Our Days Numbered? Is the Omer a Dangerous Time?

Rabbi Haggai Resnikoff and Rabbi Zachary Truboff
(Posted on February 25, 2021)
From the Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies

Rabbi Chaim Elazar Shapira (1868-1937) was the head of the rabbinical court of Mukachevo in western Ukraine and the third Rebbe of the Munkacs Chassidic dynasty. His father, Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Shapira, the second Munkacser Rebbe, was the author of the Darkhe Teshuva, an important halakhic work, and his great-great grandfather, Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech Shapira of Dinov, was the author of the classic Chasidic work Benei Yissaschar.…

Does God Play Dice with the Universe? Games of Chance and the Theology of Purim

by Rabbi Haggai Resnikoff
Posted on February 25, 2021

Rabbi Yair Bacharach (1639-1702), one of the most important German halakhic decisions of the premodern era and author of the responsa, Chavot Yair, was a student of Rabbi Mendel Bass, (who was himself the student of Rabbi Yoel Sirkis, the Ba”Ch).…

Guide for an Afternoon Purim Seudah Going into Shabbat Dinner (pores mapah u’mikadesh)

Rabbi Dov Linzer
(Posted on February 23, 2021)
From the Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies

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

Rabbi Haggai Resnikoff and Rabbi Avram Schwartz
(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.…