Idle chatter and its modern discontents.
Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Eliezer Berkovits, and the philosophy of halakhah.
“What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?”
The ethics of the advice column.
Beware the Teflon gossip.
The Talmud understands “love the stranger” to mean “love the convert.” Does it also apply to other strangers?
The Malbim’s critique of universalism.
A bizarre talmudic tale teaches that no man is too wise for the commandments.
To be morally responsible, we must commit to the good in advance of grasping its requirements in full.
For the Torah, a crime against a human is a crime against God.
Halakhah and the trolley problem.
Stemming from a God who stands above nature.
Where cruelty was encouraged and compassion punished.
The ends don’t justify the means.