Halakhah
Realism, shmealism.
Feasting and fasting.
From the “pretense of knowledge” to the “emergent order.”
Toward a Jewish theory of political economy.
And the rabbinic commitment to upholding commercial life.
Weighing risks.
Surprisingly unchanging.
“Nations who are limited by the ways of religions.”
Emotional subjectivity in Jewish law and ethics.
Halakhah and the trolley problem.
The author of our May essay on the Zoom seder joins us to talk about his ideas and the debate surrounding them.
“How God spoke is a mystery. That God spoke is of the utmost significance.”
From Ashkenazi and Sephardi to strict and lenient.
The Zoom-seder ruling was intended to ease human suffering, but it was also, in effect, a maneuver for influence within the Sephardi rabbinate and a bid to resist historical forgetfulness.
