Tag Archives: shulchan aruch

Rabbi Gershon Bess Forbids Consumption Of Most Fish

I wonder if the RCC will force all their restaurants to stop selling fish? An Orthodox rabbi tells me about Rabbi Bess and the RCC: “These people don’t know what they are talking about when they prohibit these things. The … Continue reading

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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

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Love The Convert

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed writes in the Jewish Press: The laws regarding converts to Judaism are among the most astounding in the Torah. They teach us that any non-Jew who truly and earnestly seeks to join the Jewish people may do … Continue reading

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The Tape & The Talmud

From the New York Times: Four days before his first North American Boxing Federation title defense, Yuri Foreman sat in the basement of a Brooklyn brownstone studying Shulchan Aruch, the code of Jewish law. By early afternoon, he would be … Continue reading

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Let’s Talk About The Right Of ‘Bameh Dantoni’

It’s in the Shulchan Aruch. It means that if you lose in a Beit Din (Jewish law court), you have the right to ask the judges to explain why they ruled as they did. When you take a case to … Continue reading

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