Devarim
- Pele Yoetz Devarim
July 24, 2009 - The Advantages and Disadvantages of Having a Beit HaMikdash
July 16, 2010 - Devarim Venishmartem
July 24, 2010 - The 2022 SBM Sh'aylah
August 5, 2022
Va'etchanan
- VaEtchanan 5769
July 30, 2009 - Why "Why" Questions Belong in the Beit Midrash
August 20, 2016 - Not Adding or Subtracting, Just Doing My Own Thing?
August 16, 2019 - Surviving Environmental Change: Which Halakhot Must We Bring Aboard the Ark?
August 12, 2019 - Week Four Summary SBM 2023: Practical, Psychological, and Ethical Motivation for Relaxing Rabbinic Prohibitions
July 28, 2023 - A Good Cry Should Not Be Wasted
August 16, 2024
Eikev
- Eikev Eilu V'Eilu
July 30, 2010 - The 40-year-old Clothes on their back
August 15, 2014 - Uniformity and Diversity in Halakhah
August 8, 2015 - On the Spiritual Significance of Sandwiches
August 26, 2016 - Monotheism, Matnat Chinam, and Mentschlichkeit
August 23, 2019 - “Therefore Levi received no share or homestead with his brothers: Hashem is his homestead”
August 19, 2022 - Week Five Summary SBM 2023: A Close Shave with Issurim
August 4. 2023 - What Would We Gain from That Milk and Honey That Goes to Waste on the Ground?
August 23, 2024
Re'eh
- Re'eh Lo Titgogedu
August 16, 2009 - Reeh Centralization
August 6, 2010 - When the Text is So Wrong, It Must Be Right
August 22, 2014 - Halakhic Flight Simulators? The Need for Laboratories of Law
September 3, 2016 - Authorized and Unauthorized Additions
August 18, 2017 - Dignity and Charity
August 30, 2019 - Dignity and Charity
August 14, 2020 - Additions, Subtractions, and Victims
August 26, 2020 - We Allow the Worst (Because you Might do Something Worse)
August 11, 2023 - Why Hashem Paskened Like Zionism, and Why That Should Worry Religious Zionists
August 30, 2024
Shoftim
- Shoftim Zygud
August 23, 2009 - In the Heart of Yerushalayim
August 24, 2012 - Standing in Awe: Birkat Kohanim and Inclusion
August 29, 2014 - When May One Ask for a Second Halakhic Opinion
September 10, 2016 - Aseh Lekha Rav and the Right to Second Halakhic Opinions
August 25, 2017 - (When) Should Halakhah Be Enforced
August 17, 2018 - The Chakham and the Tam in the Age of Science
September 6, 2019 - Truth and Consequences
August 21, 2020 - Politics in a Torahcracy
September 2, 2022 - In the Absence of Shotrim – Shoftim and Shoftot
August 18, 2023 - Judges in Order to Bring Order
September 6, 2024
Ki Teitzei
- Ki Tzeitei Ben Sorer UMoreh
August 28, 2009 - Ki Killelat Elokim Talui
August 18, 2010 - Ki Teitzei Ben Sorer UMoreh 2
September 9, 2011 - Yefat Toar Shekhem
August 31, 2012 - Ki Tetze 5773
August 15, 2013 - Soul inhabiting a body or a body inhabiting a soul?
September 5, 2014 - Halakhic Laboratory #1: Crossdressing
September 17, 2016 - The Spiritual Dangers of Ideological Camping
September 1, 2017 - Are Husbands Commanded to Make Their Wives Happy?
August 24, 2018 - Why Didn't the Rabbis Eliminate Mamzerut? Part 1
September 13, 2019 - Beyond Pikuach Nefesh: Why We Need a New and Different Torah Conversation About Life During a Pandemic
August 28, 2020 - Halakhic Power and Halakhic Policy: Mamzerut and Iggun Part 1
September 9, 2022 - Walking Between the Halakhic Raindrops: Why Halakhah (Sometimes) Makes Such Fine Differences Between the Permitted and the Forbidden
August 25, 2023
Ki Tavo
- Meishiv Davar Ki Tavo
September 5, 2009 - Hasket
August 27, 2010 - Seventy Languages
September 16, 2011 - Ki Tavo 5722
September 6, 2012 - Who is the Priest "Who Will Be in Those Days"?
September 13, 2014 - Kavod HaTorah and Proxy Wars
September 3, 2015 - Does G-d Gloat?
September 24, 2016 - Who Owns the Torah? Elitism and Democracy in Torah Perspective
September 8, 2017 - Why Didn't the Rabbis Eliminate Mamzerut? Part 2
September 20, 2019 - Who Should Decide When We Reopen What? Toward a Moral Decisionmaking Process for the Halakhic Community
September 4, 2020 - Eating On Yom Kippur- On/Off Switch, Or Dimmer?
August 25, 2021 - Halakhic Power and Halakhic Policy: Mamzerut and Iggun Part 2
September 16, 2022 - When Gluten-Free Bread Rains from Heaven
September 20, 2024
Nitzavim
- Lo Bashomayim
September 9, 2009 - Nitzavim Daat Zkeinim
September 3, 2010 - Nitzavim Meshekh Chokhmah
September 13, 2012 - To Heaven and Back, In Search of Torah
September 20, 2014 - When Majority Rule Breaks Down
September 12, 2015 - Saying the Unsayable: Why G-d Wore a Tallit to Lead the First Selichot
October 1, 2016 - The Value of Lip Service
September 15, 2017 - Should Divrei Torah Take Sides in Political Disputes?
September 7, 2018 - We Love Him; We Love Him Not. We Love Him...
September 27, 2019 - "Those Who Are Not Here With Us Today": A Responsum on COVID and Community
September 11, 2020 - "Should Psak be Pastorized?"
September 2, 2021 - Aggadic Halakhah, Halakhic Aggada, and Just Plain Halacha
September 23, 2022 - Why G-d’s Semikhah is Meaningless
September 8, 2023 - The Yetzer Hora and Its In-Laws
September 27, 2024
Vayelech
- Rosh HaShanah 5771
September 8, 2010 - A Portrait of a Nation as a Young Person
September 23, 2011 - Vayelekh Metaphors
September 21, 2012 - Rosh HaShanah 5774
September 4, 2013 - Leadership in a Time of Possibly Radical Change
September 19, 2015 - Leadership in a Time of Possibly Radical Change
October 7, 2016 - A Portait of a Nation as a Young Person
September 14, 2018 - Why Didn't the Rabbis Eliminate Mamzerut? Part 3
October 4, 2019 - Repentance for Repeated Sins: Practice, Practice... (uh oh) Part 3
September 9, 2021 - Halakhic Power and Halakhic Policy: Mamzerut and Iggun Part 3
September 30, 2022
Ha'azinu
- Rosh Hashannah Saadia
September 16, 2009 - Shabbat Shuvah 5770
September 24, 2009 - Yom Kippur 5771
September 16, 2010 - RH article Reform Yale
September 28, 2011 - YK Siach Yitzchak
October 7, 2011 - Haazinu Lo Davar Reik
September 28, 2012 - Do Halakhic Husbands Own Their Wives?
2015 - A Second Opinion on Second Opinions
October 14, 2016 - May a Chazan Lead High Holiday Services from a Wheelchair? Part 1
September 20, 2017 - May a Chazan Lead High Holiday Services from a Wheelchair? Part 2
September 29, 2017 - Did King David Hand in First Drafts as Final Papers?
September 21, 2018 - Why Didn't the Rabbis Eliminate Mamzerut? Part 5
October 11, 2019 - Free Love and Free Hate
September 25, 2020
VeZot Habrachah
- Sukkah Hiddur
September 30, 2009 - Ralbag Vezot Habrachah
October 11, 2009 - Sukkah Mats
September 22, 2010 - May a Chazan Lead High Holiday Services from a Wheelchair? Part 3
October 4, 2017 - This is the Dvar Torah that Never Ends, Never Ends... (Sukkot)
September 28, 2018 - Why Didn't the Rabbis Eliminate Mamzerut? Part 6
October 18, 2019 - Homefulness: Being in a Sukkah State of Mind
October 2, 2020 - May One Eat in a Sukkah on Simchat Torah?
October 9, 2020
