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Category Archives: Marc B. Shapiro
The Analytic Movement: Hayyim Soloveitchik and his Circle by Norman Solomon
Marc B. Shapiro writes: The history of Torah study is marked by various trends, such as Tosafistic analysis, the combination of philosophy and Talmud study, and pilpul. In this century, it is the “Brisker” method of Talmud study which stands … Continue reading
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IS MODERN ORTHODOXY MOVING TOWARDS AN ACCEPTANCE OF BIBLICAL CRITICISM?
Marc Shapiro writes in 2019: If you take Louis Jacobs at his word, then the eruption of the so-called ‘‘Jacobs Affair’’ in the early 1960s was a big surprise to him. Some might find this difficult to believe, since how … Continue reading
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Pets on Shabbat, Rabbi Morenu, and Epidemics
Orthodox Jews traditionally have not kept pets. Marc B. Shapiro blogs: * R. Moshe did not regard pets as muktzeh. It would thus be permissible to handle your own cat that lives in your home, but not to do so … Continue reading
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POST-MOSAIC ADDITIONS TO THE TORAH?
Marc B. Shapiro blog: * One of the biggest theological changes in Orthodoxy in the last decades—perhaps the sources collected in Limits were significant in this regard—is the acknowledgment that asserting limited post-Mosaic additions to the Torah is not to … Continue reading
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Prof Marc Shapiro – Subjectivity and the Role of Values in Halacha
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How does a Jew atone for apostasy?
Marc B. Shapiro blogs: * Since I just mentioned R. Hayyim Eleazar Shapira, let me mention something else he says that is fascinating. In the past two posts I discussed apostate rabbis. It is bad enough when an average person … Continue reading
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The Limits of Orthodox Theology: Maimonides’ Thirteen Principles Reappraised by Marc Shapiro
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Conservative Conversions
Marc B. Shapiro blogs: Of particular interest to me was R. Yissachar Dov Hoffman’s article on the practice of a number of great Torah sages of prior generations not to kiss their children. Such a practice is so much against … Continue reading
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Tales Of The Gadolim
Marc B. Shapiro writes: * Once R. Jacob David Wilovsky of Slutzk visited R. Meir Simhah of Dvinsk and told him that he wanted to also visit the Rogochover. R. Meir Simhah attempted to dissuade him, saying that the Rogochover … Continue reading
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Using A Key Card On Shabbat
Marc B. Shapiro writes: * Fixler is a student of R. Nachum Eliezer Rabinovitch, and I used some of the time we were together to clarify the details of R. Rabinovitch’s position that there is no halakhic prohibition in using … Continue reading
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