Vayikra
- Kaspi Vayikra
2009 - Vayikra OrHachayyim
2010 - Vayikra Edah
2011 - VaYikra 5722
2012 - Sacrifices
2015 - Are Leaders More Likely to Sin?
2015 - Feminism, Anti-Feminism and the Halakhic Process: Parashat Zakhor as a Case Study
2016 - Does "It's Never Been Done" Imply "It Should Never Be Done"? Part 2
March 31, 2017 - Does "It's Never Been Done" Imply "It Should Never Be Done?" Part 3
March 16, 2018 - The Persistence of Memory: Sacrifice, Human Sacrifice, and Amalek
March 15, 2019 - Facing the Halakhic Challenges of the Current Crisis
March 27, 2020 - Into the Halakhic Multiverse
March 19, 2021 - That Which You Must Fear
March 24, 2023
Tzav
- Rabbeinu Chayyim al HaRambam
2012 - Shabbat HaGadol 5773
2013 - Tzav - Tangents and Main Points
2014 - Diversity, Difference and Dignity
2015 - Tangents and Main Points
April 7, 2017 - Halakhic Discourse and Modern Sensibilities: A Dvar Torah l'ilui nishmat Rabbi Ozer Glickman z"l
March 23, 2018 - Halakhic Authority and Rabbinic Relationships: Annual Dvar Torah Honoring the Memory of Rabbi Ozer Glickman Z"L
March 22, 2019 - How to Save Lives During a Three-Day Yom Tov
April 3, 2020 - Should Women be Allowed to Clean for Pesach?
March 31, 2023 - If You Were G-d
March 29, 2024
Shemini
- Tosafot Shabbat HaGadol
2009 - Shemini Ruach Chayyim
2010 - Shemini Wine
2011 - Shemini Freedom
2012 - Shemini 5773
2013 - No Beers Before Blogging: Halakhic Democratization and its Discontents
2014 - The Meaning in the Microscopic
2015 - Music During the Omer? A Model Modern Orthodox Responsum
April 21, 2017 - Blithe Spirit
April 13, 2018 - The Fire Last Time. And Almost Every Time
March 29, 2019 - The Fire Last Time. And Almost Every Time
April 17, 2020 - I Have Never Been Wrong. (Once, I Thought I Had Erred, But Barukh Hashem I Was Mistaken.)
April 9, 2021 - Revealing the Concealed Blessings: Exploring One of Rav Chaim Kanievsky's Seforim
March 25, 2021 - Berov Am Hadrat Melekh, Democracy, and Church-State Issues
April 5, 2024
Tazria
- Tazria Sfat Emet
2009 - Tazria Yorov'om
2010 - Tazria 5771
2011 - R' Moshe on Weddings During Sefirah
2012 - Tazria-Metzora 5773
2013 - Bearing the Weight of a Complex World
April 25, 2015 - Where There's a Priestly Will, Is There a Halakhic Way?
April 5, 2019 - Bearing the Weight of a Complex World
April 24, 2020 - "If you will it, it is no aggada” – but does that make it halakhah?
April 16, 2021 - Where There's a Priestly Will, Is There a Halakhic Way?
April 1, 2022 (originally published on April 5, 2019) - May Newlyweds Utilize Contraception to Delay Having Children?
April 21, 2023 - Coercion in Captivity – a Study in Responsa Chavot Yair
April 12, 2024
Metzora
- Dworkin Brown Metzora
2011 - Shabbat Hagadol 5771
2011 - Tzara'at: The Exception that Proves the Rule of Objectivity in Halakhic Experience
2016 - The Integrated Religious Life
April 28, 2017 - Facebook, Data Privacy, and Halakhah
April 20, 2018 - Facebook, Data Privacy, and Halakhah
April 12, 2019 - Nechama Leibowitz z"l's Worksheet on the Shabbat Hagadol Haftorah
April 8, 2022 - Eliyahu in Oz
April 19, 2024
Acharei Mot
- Acharei Tree Beauty
2010 - Minding the Mashal-Nimshal Gap
2015 - Correct Belief and Spiritual Luck
2016 - Should Moral Intuition and Halakhah Always Agree?
May 3, 2019 - Can You Tell Me How This Rishon Read the Gemara?
April 23, 2021 - Overcoming False Certainty is a Joy
April 29, 2022 - A Zen Koan, A Speculative Emendation, and . . . the Laws of Yichud?
April 28, 2023 - Can Halakhah Speak to the Experience of Not Being Heterosexual?
May 3, 2024
Kedoshim
- Tiferet Yehonatan Kedoshim
2009 - Kedoshim Molekh
2011 - Kedoshim Heresh
2012 - Avel BaMishpat
2013 - Wicked Savants and Pious Fools: Thoughts on the Use of Kavod haBeriyot in Halakhic Discourse
2016 - Wicked Savants and Pious Fools: Thoughts on the Use of Kavod haBeriyot in Halakhic Discourse
May 5, 2017 - Did a Rabbi Really Just Say That?!
April 27, 2018 - Does the Torah Forbid Us to Lie?
May 10, 2019 - Social Distancing in Halakhah: The Dispute between Rambam and Ramban about Harchakot Niddah
May 1, 2020 - Under What Circumstances is a Forced Get Valid? (Part 2)
May 6, 2020 - If the Heavens Proclaim His Glory, May One Use a Telescope from a Bathroom?
May 10, 2023
Emor
- Emor HaKtav vehaKabbalah
2009 - Emor Halomed Mikol Adam
2010 - Emor Genetics
2011 - Emor Tunes from Sinners
2012 - ZABLA
2013 - Torah Leadership and Torah Knowledge
2015 - Valuing Dissent in a Time of Celebration
May 12, 2017 - PSHAT and MEANING: AN I on an EYE for an Eye-IN
May 4, 2018 - Can Halakhah Be a Desecration of Hashem's Name?
May 17, 2019 - Triage and Ventilators: The Position(s) of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt"l
May 8, 2020 - How To Make A Chillul Hashem
April 30, 2021 - When is a Coerced Get Valid? (Part 3)
May 13, 2022 - Halakhah, Transparency, and Justice: Thoughts about Kohanim and Converts
May 5, 2023 - "One Rule to Ring Them All?" Mishpat Echad, Equity, and Equality
May 17, 2024
Behar
- Sacrificing Spirituality: Why the Torah Bans Some Really Meaningful Stuff
2002 - Midrash Halakhah and Biblical Criticism
2009 - When and How Should Torah Scholars Express Anger?
2010 - Is there a Difference Between Moral Obligations and Unenforceable Halakhah?
2011 - Coherence, Correspondence, and Coolness: The Case of the Exiled Shekhinah
2014 - Pruzbul and Other Workarounds: The Challenge of Apparently Irrelevant Torah Laws
2015 - Converts as the Shadow of Redemption
2016 - The Rabbi and the Gabbai: A Horsetorical Bromance
May 19, 2017 - Slaves, Wage Slaves, and Divine Service
May 11, 2018 - Why the Free Bird Sings
May 24, 2019 - Halakhah and Moral Intuition: A Case Study
May 15, 2020 - Is Freeing an Agunah a Leniency or a Stringency?
May 7, 2021 - When are Coerced Gittin Valid? (Part 4)
May 20, 2022 - (Only) Gerim and Toshavim
May 12, 2023 - Zombie Torah
May 24, 2024
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