Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Giving Tochacha - even if it causes embarrassment and degradation - for bein Adam L'Makom mitzvos
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update Rabbi Shain has additional sources that he asked to be posted http://yudelstake.blogspot.com/2014/08/rambam.html BM (59a): Bett...
Is this comparable to the the Kaminetsky-Greenblatt heter? Former Judge Is Convicted of Bribery in Divorce Court
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NY Times A former State Supreme Court judge was convicted yesterday of accepting bribes to manipulate the outcome of divorce proceedi...
Monday, January 11, 2016
macho'oh vs. Macho'oh: Being concerned for a man's honor and not G-d's
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Nedarim (39b): Raba, or as others say, R. Isaac, lectured: What is meant by, The sun and the moon stood still in their zebul?15 What were...
Open Letter to Rav Aharon Schechter regarding the 4:30 p.m. meeting concerning Tamar's "heter"
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Update: I had posted this Sunday morning before the meeting - but then removed it when I received conflicting messages from insiders as ...
Sunday, January 10, 2016
The Organized Resistance Against Phony Agunahs by Joe Orlow
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It is not for plain, simple, members of the community to publicly question the religious rulings of the Rabbis of congregations. The role...
Rav Shmuel Kaminetsky receives support - not for being right but for being a gadol!
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update: Those who signed were told that it was a private show of support for Rav Kaminetsky and that it would not be made public. The ori...
Saturday, January 9, 2016
Nathan Lewin: Defense of the Epstein Torture Gang - because they were just doing a mitzva!?
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Nathan Lewin is a very smart lawyer - but in his continued defense of the Epstein Torture gang he is showing he knows nothing about eleme...
Friday, January 8, 2016
Supporter of Rav Kaminetsky: I don't know what happened but I know you don't know either and therefore can't deal with this issue!
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update: added comment about violation of Shulchan Aruch with their continued silence This is the first response to my request for a de...
A feminist supporter of Rav Shmuel Kaminetsky proudly says women are destroying Orthodoxy
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Times of Israel This year, it became clear that the rabbis who understand the crucial need to solve the ‘Agunah Crisis’, which lea...
Thursday, January 7, 2016
Va'eirah; Why Yaakov Aveinu Was Afraid of The Makkos
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Guest Post by Rabbi Shlomo Pollak The Daas Zekeinim Mibaalei Tosfus, in Parshas Vayechi, discusses two reasons Yaakov Aveinu did...
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Vaerah 76 - Sustaining Change or the Teshuva- Repentance of Pharaoh by Allan Katz
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Guest Post by Allan Katz A central theme in the parasha is Pharaoh's refusal to set free the Israelites despite him and his peopl...
Sunday, January 3, 2016
Thought provoking - but not frum: What's Divine About Divine Law by Prof Christine Hayes
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We periodically get into discussion - sometimes heated - about man's rationality being subordinate to the Torah. I just came across a n...
Friday, January 1, 2016
No More Statutes of Limitations for Rape
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NY Times THIS week, Bill Cosby was charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault. The felony charges stemmed from an in...
Steipler : Yaavetz' cure for severe depression and suicidal impulses - more love and affection with spouse
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Steipler (Letters #10): Question : Concerning a person who suffers from severe depression who has tried to commit suicide. Answer . Perh...
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