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On (Not) Understanding the Reasons Behind Rabbinic Prohibitions: The Case of...
On (Not) Understanding The Reasons Behind Rabbinic Prohibitions: The Case of Teaching Shehiyah by Daniel Reifman Teachers of Halakhah are often torn between conflicting agendas: on the one hand, to...
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Land and Sea, Natural and Supernatural in the Book of Jonah
Land and Sea, Natural and Supernatural in the Book of Jonah by Daniel Reifman Like many texts that have been incorporated into the liturgy, the book of Jonah seems inseparable from the time it is...
View ArticleThe Brain Death Debate: A Methodological Analysis – Part 1 (Yoma Passage) by...
At the end of last year, the Halakha Committee (Vaad Halakha) of the Rabbinical Council of America released an educational paper which opposed the halakhic recognition of brain death, bringing the...
View ArticleThe Brain Death Debate: A Methodological Analysis – Part 2 (Hatam Sofer)
The Enlightenment severely altered our conception of how the body functions, so it’s not surprising that the sources that figure prominently in the debate over brain death begin to accumulate only in...
View ArticleThe Brain Death Debate: A Methodological Analysis (Part 3a—Rabbi Moshe...
[Click on these links for Part 1 and Part 2] Rabbi Moshe Feinstein was one of the very few contemporary poskim with sufficient stature to potentially resolve the contemporary halakhic dispute over...
View ArticleThe Brain Death Debate: A Methodological Analysis (Part 3b—Rabbi Moshe...
[Click on these links for Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3a] Determining death in trauma victims In our last post, we saw that Rabbi Feinstein considers the interaction between different bodily functions...
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