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Category Archives: Orthodoxy
Why Marc B. Shapiro Won’t Be Giving Any Classes On The Rebbe, The Rav, And Aharon Kotler
In his first class on Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg for Torah in Motion, Professor Marc B. Shapiro says: Let me tell you about who we won’t be discussing — the three most important figures in post-war North American Orthodoxy — … Continue reading
Eating Peanuts On Passover
Rabbi David Zvi Hoffman — the greatest Torah scholar of the past couple of centuries — was with the right-wing Agudah. He was not anti-Zionist but he was not Mizrachi (religious Zionist and on the more moderate end of the … Continue reading
Season’s Greetings
Just before every major Jewish holiday, you find in Jewish publications such as The Jewish Week and the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles various forms of "Season’s Greetings" aka "Rosh Hashanah Greetings" aka "Chanukkah Greetings" aka "Passover Greetings" from numerous … Continue reading
RebMoshe.com!
In heretofore secret documents now finally unveiled by the Leader, Reb Moshe lays out his plans for his very own website (grammatical and spelling mistakes are in the original): Through the gift of ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit), HaShem showed me … Continue reading
I Was A Talmid Of The Rav!
Only now can the truth be told! I know every rabbi claims to have been a talmid of the Rav, but I really was. I studded under the Rav for three years when he was still teaching in Yiddish. The … Continue reading
Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy: The Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, 1884-1966
I’m listening to Professor Marc B. Shapiro‘s lecture on the Srida Aish (Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg) for Torah in Motion (Movers and Shakers of Modern Orthodoxy 2). Marc says that if World War II ended in 1942, instead of talking … Continue reading
When Rabbis Over-Step
I love this story because I love seeing rabbis who fancy themselves authorities in matters they know little get humiliated when they try to squash others. Rabbi Hirsch fancied himself the leader of German Orthodoxy. He attacked Rabbi David Zvi … Continue reading
A Reb Moshe Story
(This was published by Reb Moshe’s family after his death.) When Reb Moshe Feinstein was 35 (in the 1930s), he said that a certain type of mikveh that most rabbis said was not kosher was kosher. Reb Moshe made his … Continue reading
Rabbis Vs Journalists
The Jewish Week reported in its June 10, 2009 issue: The halachic adviser to Ohel Children’s Home and Family Services, which receives millions of dollars in state and federal money, told a Bergenfield, N.J., synagogue audience in 2007 that tax … Continue reading
Intellectuals Go Nuts Over Rav Soloveitchik
But the ordinary Jew has not been affected by the Rav. Those who get drunk on the Rav’s theories are intellectuals who love theories. Yes, the Rav ordained more rabbis than anybody in history. But the Rav did not make … Continue reading