Category Archives: Marc B. Shapiro

Rabbi Prof. Marc Shapiro on the need for Kashrut Organizations

Date: 11/11/2003 8:02:00 AM Subject: Clarification Message: I have noticed that many people don’t understand the basic shitah of this website. With your permission, let me clarify something. Rav Henkin, who together with R. Moshe Feinstein was the leading halakhic … Continue reading

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Rabbis Talk Differently To Other Rabbis

In his fourth lecture on Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin, history professor Marc B. Shapiro says: Wikipedia has everything you need. In the rabbinic world, you don’t have book reviews [like what Rav Zevin did in Sofrim U’Sefarim]. It’s not part … Continue reading

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Artscroll Vs Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin

In his third lecture on Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin, history professor Marc B. Shapiro says: I expected Obama to win. I did not vote for him. Rav Zevin wrote Ha’moadim Be’halachah – halachic studies of the Jewish festivals. When this … Continue reading

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Should Ordinary Jews Study Talmud?

Historian Marc B. Shapiro writes: In all the discussions recently about the success of Daf Yomi, I didn’t see anyone note that one of the reasons this success is so surprising is that the whole notion of Daf Yomi goes … Continue reading

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Secular Studies In Lithuania

Historian Marc B. Shapiro writes: Although in the U.S. the Telz yeshiva adopted a very anti-secular studies perspective, this was not the case in Europe. R. Joseph Leib Bloch was very involved with the Yavneh day school system in Lithuania, … Continue reading

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