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Category Archives: halacha
Mikvah – followed by Tefillin
This morning, on my 25th birthday, I put on Teffilin (my teffilin), for the first time. I marveled at the visceral wonder – wrapping leather cords around my arm – an act of prayer. Its pagan strange beauty made me … Continue reading
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END KIDUSHIN NOW
I was in fact thrilled to find out that women apparently are less happy today than they were forty years ago – thrilled I tell you. Because that means that women are not complacent like they had once been. Women … Continue reading
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Ha-Sodot (“The Secrets”) review
I have wanted to see Ha-Sodot for a very long time, and while it proved to be far tamer than expected it is still a fairly good film. The combination of Safet, frum young women in medrasha, and lots of … Continue reading
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Perishing the Halahic Woman
As I sit down to write this, I am reminded of the speech written in 1852 by Sojourner Truth, a speech entitled “Aint I a Woman?” In her speech Truth seeks to unite the plight of slavery and the plight … Continue reading
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Modesty is a dirty word.
A few weeks ago a story surfaced about Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in Israel wearing a garment a kin to a “burka” as a way of up-ing the anti on modesty. The original Haartz article on this issue is in Hebrew, … Continue reading
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The one who teaches his daughter math is teaching her to lasciviousness
The modern day version of “the one who teaches his daughter Torah is teaching her lasciviousness” (Talmud, Sotah 20a) has arrived. An article in the Seattle Times links an increase in education for girls to an increase in drugs, alcohol … Continue reading
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Does sex cause depression?! and Shmuley Boteach
It’s been a while since I posted last. I left good-old Zionist Israel and moved to DC, to study Law. (Two weeks in and I still have my idealism, Still hoping to change the world, and all that jazz J … Continue reading
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The Rebbe, the Soul of Moses and “Continuous Revelation”
I went to the Accent Youth Hostel in Safed for a full Sunday. I sat on the porches with the beautiful overlooks of hills and valleys. I went for pizza on the busy commercial street of Safed, on the way, … Continue reading
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The will of God and leaving Orthodox Judaism
My last week of saying good-bye to Orthodoxy has begun, and after a lengthy google search I could find nothing relevant for “leaving orthodoxy” and thus I take it upon myself to create the post I was looking for all … Continue reading
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A word of Torah at Nahloat.
For reasons that escape me utterly I am still in Israel, now studying Judaism, at Nishmat, a Dati Lumi (Religious Zionist) seminary. (I will tell you all about it soon. Today I must write about the Dvar Torah I heard … Continue reading