Translated Articles — Rabbi Michael Abraham

All Translated Articles (951)

Columns 700–799

• A Critical Look at the Radicalization in Religious Zionism (Column 765)
• The Coventry Dilemma (Column 764)
• Evolution, Dualism, and Artificial Intelligence (Column 763)
• A Look at Morality and Psychology, or: Kant and Common Sense (Column 762)
• On Haredim and Conscientious Objection (Column 761)
• Judging from Different Perspectives (Column 760)
• Popper on Science and Philosophy (Column 759)
• On Coercion and Will (Column 758)
• Three Holding a Cloak (Column 757)
• The Tzomet Institute or the Weizmann Institute – Second Continuation (Column 756)
• The Role of the Warning in Sotah — Between the Marital Bond and Holiness (Column 755)
• Homosexual Partnership in Jewish Law (Column 754)
• The Prohibition of Suicide—Between Morality and Jewish Law (Column 753)
• Another Look at the Connection Between Logic and Facts (Column 752)
• Are We Living in a Simulation? (Column 751)
• Jews as Human Beings: E. The Two-Story Model – Sacrifices and Divine Service (Column 750)
• Jews as Human Beings: D. The Two-Story Model – Ishut (Column 749)
• Jews as Human Beings: C. The Two-Story Model – Implications (Column 748)
• Jews as Human Beings: B. The Two-Tier Model (Column 747)
• Jews as Human Beings: A. The Segula of Israel (Column 746)
• The Importance of Studying the Gemara (Column 745)
• A Further Look at the LGBT Phenomenon (Column 744)
• A Look at Leniency and Stringency and Halachic Ruling: C. Minimal-Cost Determinations (Column 743)
• A Look at Leniency and Stringency and at Halakhic Ruling: B. The Role of the Posek and the Nature of Halakhic Decision-Making (Column 742)
• A Look at Kula and Chumra and at Halakhic Ruling: A. Defining the Concepts (Column 741)
• Is Coercion to Perform the Commandments a Punishment? (Column 740)
• An Optimistic View of the Situation (Column 739)
• "Bal Tosif" and Its Meaning (Column 738)
• The Logic of *Kal Va-Chomer*: III. A Note on Maimonides’ Approach (Column 737)
• The Logic of Kal Va-Chomer: B. Exceptions (Column 736)
• The Logic of Kal va-ḥomer: A. Relevance (Column 735)
• Ethics: Between Emotion and Reason (Column 734)
• Another Look at Greatness in Torah (Column 733)
• A Look at 'Begging the question' (Column 732)
• Haredi-ness Between an Essential Definition and a Sociological–Institutional Definition (Column 731)
• Induction – Continued: On Chance Significance (Column 730)
• Scientific Generalization and the Problem of Induction in Halakha and Beyond (Column 729)
• The Third Path: On LGBTQ, “Liteness,” and Harmful Critique (Column 728)
• A Look at the Current Debate on War Crimes in Gaza (Column 727)
• "Philosophers Against God" – On Jeremy Fogel’s Book (Column 726)
• On Discrimination Against Women and the Essence of the Chief Rabbinate (Column 725)
• The relationship between halakhah and reason: what is ‘gezerat ha-katuv’? (Column 724)
• Between Guilt and Responsibility (Column 723)
• A Gloomy Look at Greatness in Torah: Illustrations from Real Life (Column 722)
• On the Status of Secular Jews in Our Time (Column 721)
• Another Look at Haredi Society: Long-Term Considerations and Large Scales (Column 720)
• Deriving *Ta‘ama DeKra*: E. What Is “*Gezerat ha-Katuv*”? (Column 719)
• The Derive for Ta‘ama De’kra: 4. The Law of Hazamah Cannot Be Detached from the Facts (Column 718)
• Where Are We Headed: A Different Look at the Current Situation (Column 717)
• Deriving *Ta‘ama de-Kra*: 3. “Gezerat ha-Katuv” (Column 716)
• Deriving *Ta‘ama d’Kra*: B. Reason and *Geder* (Column 715)
• Reflections on the Flag March on Jerusalem Day – A View from the Right (Column 714)
• Deriving Ta‘ama de-Kra: A. Why Don’t We Derive It? (Column 713)
• **Honor Killing: A Look at Links Between Religion and Culture (Column 712)**
• On the “Philosophy” of the Hostages and the Church of the Left (Column 711)
• The Loop That Stalls Us (Column 710)
• Another Look at Psychopathy and Altruism (Column 709)
• On a Halakhic Loop and a Goyishe Kop (Column 708)
• Dynamics and Statics in Halakha and Negative Attributes: The Case of Giving a Get (Column 707)
• Two Remarks on Halakhic Decision-Making in Advance of Passover (Column 706)
• A Systematic Look at the Static and the Dynamic (Column 705)
• "Painted in Words" – On Books, Paintings, and Early Cinema (Column 704)
• Another Look at Free Will (Column 703)
• Transgender People in Halakha: B. A Critical Reading of Rabbi Katz’s Article (Column 702)
• Transgender Individuals in Halakha: A. Conceptual Analysis (Column 701)
• Profane Matters in the Purity of Holiness: The Proper Attitude to the Secular World (Column 700)

Columns 600–699

• Man and Machine—May the Lord Save: VI. On Empathy — Halakhic Rulings from an Experiential Distance (Column 699)
• Man and Machine—O LORD, Save: V. Who Is Man—Intellect or Will? (Column 698)
• Man and Machine—May the Lord Save Us: IV. Is Man a Machine (Column 697)
• Man and Machine—May the Lord Save: C. On Errors, Lies, and the Character Refinement of Machines (Column 696)
• Man and Machine—May the Lord Save Us: B. Neural Networks (Column 695)
• Man and Machine, May the Lord Save: A. An Initial Look at a Computer (Column 694)
• Another Look at Defining Haredi Identity (Column 693)
• On Teleology and Causation in Science (Column 692)
• On Divine Involvement Within the Framework of Nature and on Faith Declarations in General (Column 691)
• Cosmic Purpositivism and Exponential Nonsense (Column 690)
• Superposition and Quantum Collapse in Halakha – A Further Look (Column 689)
• Lament over the Second Hostage Deal (Column 688)
• Norton’s Dome (Column 687)
• A Look at Prophecy and the Transmission of the Torah (Column 686)
• Do We Learn Moral Values from the Torah? (Column 685)
• Another Look at Greatness in Torah and the Attitude to Halakhah (Column 684)
• A Halakhic–Mathematical Problem and Its Implications (Column 683)
• What Is Greatness in Torah? (Column 682)
• When Will It Be Better? (Column 681)
• On Doubleness and Stagnation in the Haredi World (Column 680)
• Between the Halachic Validity of a Commandment and the Strength of the Obligation to Observe It (Column 679)
• On Security Experts, Strategy, and the Current Situation (Column 678)
• On Theology and Sociopathy (Column 677)
• On the New Talmud Critique: Yitzhak Isakov (Column 676)
• On the New Critique of the Talmud: Dov Elbaum (Column 675)
• On the New Critique of the Talmud: A General Introduction (Column 674)
• A Systematic Look at the “Witness Argument”: Hume’s Irony (Column 673)
• A Systematic Look at the “Witness Argument”: My Critique of David Hume (Column 672)
• A Systematic Look at the “Argument from Testimony”: David Hume’s Critique (Column 671)
• Laughter and Tears Mixed Together: Keeping Perspective Before Yom Kippur (Column 670)
• A Halakhic State: Torah and Politics (Column 669)
• New Year’s Wishes for Rosh Hashanah 5785 with Some Reflections on the Situation (Column 668)
• Halakhic Adjudication on Questions of Jewish Thought (Column 667)
• Another Look at the Hostage Deal (Column 666)
• Another Look at the Identity Seamline (Column 665)
• On Monadology in Our Public Discourse (Column 664)
• Conclusions from a Limited Information Base (Column 663)
• On Concepts and Conceptualizations (Column 662)
• Faith and Wagering: Two Types of Decision-Making Under Uncertainty (Column 661)
• A Look at the Law of the Excluded Middle (Column 660)
• “‘And There Is One Who Perishes Without Justice’: Is There Death Without Sin?” (Column 659)
• On the “Gag Law” at Universities (Column 658)
• Another Look at “Lo Taturu” (Column 657)
• On Thinking Outside the Box (Column 656)
• On Intellectualism, Greatness in Torah, and Wisdom (Column 655)
• The Merits and Drawbacks of Intellectualism: A Look at Paradoxes (Column 654)
• What Is Intuition? Cognition, Thinking, and Emotion (Column 653)
• Between Legislation and Interpretation: The Synthetic A Priori in Law (Column 652)
• Is It Possible to Act Against the Torah? (Column 651)
• A Lesson in Critical Reading – A Look at Hardal Propaganda (Column 650)
• On Drafting Yeshiva Students and Haredim – A Halakhic Perspective (Column 649)
• The Halakhic Tragedy of Our Time: The Chief Rabbinate and the Appointment of Women Rabbis (Column 648)
• The Development of the Midrashic Methodology and the Philosophy of Science (Column 647)
• A Look at the Determinists’ Hallucination Dictionary (Column 646)
• Free Will and Randomness (Column 645)
• On the Trees and the Forest (Column 644)
• Parashat the Children of Gad and Reuben: B. Halakhic Implications (Column 643)
• Parashat Bnei Gad and Reuven: A. A Look at Conditions (Column 642)
• On Statutes and Judgments and What Lies Between Them (Column 641)
• The Issue of Letter Skips and Codes in the Bible (Column 640)
• "Fixing God," by Arna Kazin: A Critical Reading (Column 639)
• On Values and Oppositions (Column 638)
• A Look at My Method of Study and at First-Order Halakhic Ruling (Column 637)
• Desecrating Shabbat to Prevent Apostasy (Column 636)
• The Proper Attitude Toward the Residents of Gaza (Column 635)
• Modal Logic and the Barcan Formula (Column 634)
• Between October and Purim: “Rejoice with Trembling” (Column 633)
• Okimtas – A Mini-Lecture and Exercises (Column 632)
• Why and How to Observe the Commandments in Light of Maimonides’ Thought (Column 631)
• The Relationship Between the Question of Origin and Formation and the Question of Essence (Column 630)
• On the Contribution of the Haredim – A Look at Some Foolish Arguments (Column 629)
• Self-Sacrifice for an Act with No Outcome (Column 628)
• On the Right, Hostages, and Populism (Column 627)
• On Tradition and Dynamism: E. Autonomy in Halakhic Ruling (Column 626)
• On Tradition and Dynamism: D. An Evolving Tradition and a Multiplicity of Opinions (Column 625)
• On Tradition and Dynamism: C. Between Factual and Normative Tradition (Column 624)
• On Tradition and Dynamism: B. A Historical Description (Column 623)
• On Tradition and Dynamism: A. Conceptual Analysis (Column 622)
• On Dividing the Torah Between Morality and Halakha (Column 621)
• On Religious, National, and Other Traditions (Column 620)
• Uprooted Rationales (Column 619)
• Uprooted Halakhot (Column 618)
• A Talmudic Source for R. Shimon Shkop’s Principle of Consistency (Column 617)
• The HCJ Incapacity Ruling: Between Intent and Outcome (Column 616)
• An Overview of the “Reasonableness” Case (Column 615)
• The Halakhic Significance of Multiplying Probabilities: C. Conditional Probability and an Undermined Majority (Column 614)
• The Halakhic Meaning of Multiplying Probabilities: B. Safek Sefeka (Double Doubt) (Column 613)
• The Halakhic Meaning of Probabilistic Multiplication: A. “Trei Rubei” and “Ruba de-Ruba” (Column 612)
• The Return of the Hostages: On Contradictions, Politics, and Lies (Column 611)
• The Betrayal of the Intellectuals: A Look at Progressivism and Antisemitism (Column 610)
• Drafting Yeshiva Students: In Those Days, at This Time (Column 609)
• A Systematic Look at Releasing Terrorists (Column 608)
• A Look at the Hostage Deal (Column 607)
• Takkanat Usha: The Essential and Accidental Cost of a Mitzvah (Column 606)
• On Morality and Emotion: A General Overview (Column 605)
• Enhanced Performance of a Mitzvah After Fulfilling the Obligation (Column 604)
• Paradox of the Surprise Quiz: A Continuation (Column 603)
• A Reexamination of Paradigms in the Wake of the Simchat Torah Events (Column 602)
• Paradox of the Surprise Test: On Two Types of Solutions to Paradoxes (Column 601)
• Between Performing a Commandment and Responsibility for Its Fulfillment (Column 600)

Columns 500–599

• Commandment of Circumcision as the Father’s Commandment Concerning His Son (Column 599)
• Including Women for the Wedding Blessings (Column 598)
• On Survival and Truth: A Sober Look at Orthodoxy and Sociology (Column 597)
• A Look at Revenge: Mind and Heart (Column 596)
• Yom Kippur War 5784 – A Conceptual Perspective (Column 595)
• A Look at the 5784 Yom Kippur “War” (Column 594)
• Is Materialism Better Suited to the Scientific Outlook? (Column 593)
• Will Artificial Intelligence Be Able to Replace Us? (Column 592)
• The Philosophical Implications of AI Software (Column 591)
• On Technological Phobias and AI Rulings (Column 590)
• The Tribe of Levi in Our Times: The Form of the Discussion (Column 589)
• On Pragmatism (Column 588)
• On Pantheism (Column 587)
• Atheism as “Scientism”: On Science and Philosophy (Column 586)
• Between Messianism and “Messianism” (Column 585)
• What Do Providence and Messianism Have to Do with the Judicial Reform? (Column 584)
• The Nature of Rabbinic Laws: B. Implications (Column 583)
• The Nature of Rabbinic Laws: A. Definitions (Column 582)
• A Time to Plant and a Time to Uproot What Is Planted: A Look at Refusal and Non-Volunteering (Column 581)
• Modal Logic and Ontological Arguments (Column 580)
• The Attitude toward LGBTQ: Between Facts and Values (Column 579)
• On the Positivist Meanings of the Expression 'Statute' (Column 578)
• The Midrashiyah: “Once There Was a School” (Column 577)
• The Emperor’s New Clothes: Safeguards and a Look at “Lo Taturu” (Column 576)
• The Emperor’s New Clothes: Releasing Repressed Beliefs (Column 575)
• A Globalist Perspective in Halakhah (Column 574)
• On Savoraim and Ways – A Look at the Beginning of Tractate Kiddushin (Column 573)
• On the Shoulders of Giants: A Look at Altruism and Renaissance People (Column 572)
• Michi’s Three New Laws: The Self-Echo Fallacy (Column 571)
• On ‘Midrashic Conservatism’ and the Status of Default Rules (Column 570)
• Mundialito Musings (Column 569)
• “Have We Truly Lost the Spirit?” – A Response to Rabbi Inbal’s Critique (Column 568)
• Be Killed Rather Than Transgress (Column 567)
• A Look at the Jerusalem Day Parades + One Sane Parade (Column 566)
• What’s Wrong with Ideologies? (Column 565)
• A Philosophical View of the Current Disputes (Column 564)
• A Philosophical Look at Contemporary Disputes (Column 563)
• A Mother’s Obligation to Her Fetus (Column 562)
• Reflections Following the Death of Yonatan Geffen (Column 561)
• On General Questions in Q\&A and Beyond (Column 560)
• Some Benefits That Can Be Derived from Serving God (Column 559)
• Haredi Voices for Integration (Column 558)
• Between the Zomet Institute and the Weizmann Institute (Column 557)
• The Meaning of the Realm of Kodashim (Column 556)
• A Look at “Lesser-Evil” Considerations (Column 555)
• Advantages and Disadvantages of an Academic Approach (Column 554)
• An Analytical Look at Majority Rule (Column 553)
• A Constitutional Moment, or: How Public Discourse Operates (Column 552)
• The Law of an Adult Who Became a Minor at the Purim Feast (Column 551)
• The Attitude toward Contradictions: 2. A Critique of Rabbi Inbal’s Article (Column 550)
• The Attitude Toward Contradictions: 1. A General Picture (Column 549)
• The Game Theory of the Separation of Powers (Column 548)
• Evil in the World: The Big Picture (Column 547)
• Confesses and Forsakes: Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu’s Apology and Its Meaning (Column 546)
• Addenda to the Last Two Columns (Column 545)
• On the Duty to Demonstrate Tomorrow (Column 544)
• Theological Interpretations of Reality (Column 543)
• Halakha and Morality: “A Kohen’s Wife” – Film and Halakha (Column 542)
• Halakha and Morality: The Theoretical Picture (Column 541)
• On Melodies in Prayer (Column 540)
• The Meaning of Collective Determinism (Column 539)
• A Moral Dilemma and Types of Lotteries (Column 538)
• On Abduction and Mathematics (Column 537)
• A Short Exercise in Reading Comprehension: What Is Diversity? – Continued (Column 536)
• A Short Exercise in Reading Comprehension: What Is Diversity? (Column 535)
• The Debate over Levin’s Judicial Reform (Column 534)
• A Look at Haredi Ideology (Column 533)
• Animal Farm: A Coalition of Horror against a Hysterical Opposition (Column 532)
• Desecration of Shabbat in the Police: C. Theoretical Foundation (Column 531)
• Chillul Shabbat in the Police: B. What Is Public *Pikuach Nefesh*? (Column 530)
• Shabbat Desecration in the Police: A. An Overview of Pikuach Nefesh Considerations (Column 529)
• Hiddur Mitzvah in the Hanukkah Candle and in General (Column 528)
• On Lighting the Hanukkah Candle and Watching the World Cup Final (Column 527)
• WhatsApp Messages and “Confirmation Bias” on Turbo (Column 526)
• On Money and Monetary Acquisition—Halakhic Implications (Column 525)
• On Money and Kinyan Kesef (Column 524)
• "“Kalta Kinyano” in Kiddushin (Column 523)
• What Is a Loan? (Column 522)
• A Look at Metaphysical Dimensions in Halakhah (Column 521)
• Falsehood and Retroactive Transgression in Halakhah (Column 520)
• "Light from the Hefker": B. On Heracliteanism and Parmenideanism (Column 519)
• "Light from a Windfall": A. What Is Secular Revelation? (Column 518)
• The Four “Michi” Laws (Column 517)
• “‘And in the Howling Wilderness’ (Column 516)
• Response to Rabbi Michael Abraham’s Column / Noam Oren (Column 515)
• What Is Parenthood (Column 514)
• Another Look at Proofs, Faith, and Religious Language (Column 513)
• Marital Relations After Divorce (Column 512)
• Voting Considerations in Elections (Column 511)
• Women’s Aliyah to the Torah: Aliyah, Blessings, and Minyan (Column 510)
• The Rule of Majority at Moments in Time (Column 509)
• The High-Rise Sukkah Proposal (Column 508)
• A Contemporary Look at Teshuva (Column 507)
• A Bayesian Look at the Physico-Theological Argument (Column 506)
• “It Is Not in Heaven”: A Look at Rules (Column 505)
• A Look at Transgenderism and the Giv’at Shmuel Affair (Column 504)
• What Are the ‘Arurim’ (Curses): The Example of Causing Another to Transgress (Column 503)
• Is the World Really Real? (Column 502)
• Two Types of Modern Religiosity and a View on Traditionalism (Column 501)
• The Third Identity (Column 500)

Columns 400–499

• A Look at Modesty and Its Meaning (Column 499)
• A Look at Conversion to Christianity: “Rachmana liba ba’i”? (Absolutely not. Column 498)
• What Is a Woman: “In a Red Dress” or “A Weekday Song”? (Column 497)
• Between Intellectual Optimism and Pessimism: 3. The Road to God (Column 496)
• Between Intellectual Optimism and Pessimism: B. Kant’s Solution (Column 495)
• Between Intellectual Optimism and Pessimism: A. The Fracture (Column 494)
• Reflections on Psychopathy, Free Will, and Morality (Column 493)
• A Look at Love in Marriage and Beyond (Column 492)
• Reflections on Our Attitude Toward the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (Column 491)
• ‘Respect and Friendship’ Approach – A Look at the Attitude Toward Those Who Leave the Faith (Column 490)
• An Educational–Methodological Look at the “Monkey Trial” (Column 489)
• The Objective within the Subjective: A Look at Mizrahi Music (Column 488)
• Immodest Scenes in Films and Books (Column 487)
• The Rise and Fall of Bennett and Their Implications (Column 486)
• With the Passing of Prof. David Halivni Weiss, z”l (Column 485)
• Is Lehava a Racist Organization? (Column 484)
• Is Iran Here? On Progressivism and Sane Liberalism (Column 483)
• The Casuistic Structure of the Talmud (Column 482)
• The Role of “Nafka Minot” (Column 481)
• Is Philosophy So Boring, and What Does It Have to Do with Modern Orthodoxy? (Column 480)
• Two Notes on Torah Study (Column 479)
• What Is Modern Orthodoxy: How Does It Differ from Reform? (Column 478)
• What Is Modern Orthodoxy? Between Authority and Essence (Column 477)
• What Is Modern Orthodoxy: The Gray Area (Column 476)
• What Is Modern Orthodoxy: A Preliminary Analysis (Column 475)
• A Proposal to Prime Minister Bennett (Column 474)
• Simplism in Simple Statistical Forecasts (Column 473)
• Two Notes on Concepts of Sanctity (Column 472)
• Could There Be an Obligation for a Person to Kill Himself? (Column 471)
• Liberalism and Its Limits (Column 470)
• A Broad View of the Conversion Controversies (Column 469)
• The Essence of the Prohibition of Chametz (Column 468)
• Mind and Heart—Emotions in Study and in Halakhic Ruling (Column 467)
• Causality: VII. Causality as an Internal Timeline (Column 466)
• Causality: VI. Different Mechanisms of Influence on the Past – A Halakhic Perspective (Column 465)
• Causality: E. Praying for What Has Already Happened and Praying for the Past (Column 464)
• Causality: D. Prayer for a Miracle (Column 463)
• Causality: C. A Look at the Logical Component of Causality (Column 462)
• Causality: B. The Problem of Formalization (Column 461)
• On Whether All Israel Fulfills with One Mishloach Manot (Column 460)
• Causality: A. A General Overview (Column 459)
• The Wonders of Bias – Between Folly and Hatred (Column 458)
• A Look at the Euthyphro Dilemma in Light of the Debate (Column 457)
• On God and Morality: The Discussion with David Enoch (Column 456)
• Again the Categorical Imperative: Whoever Desires Peace and Morality—Prepare for War (Column 455)
• Another Look at Conceptual Analyses: The Law of Agency (Column 454)
• Splitting a Ruling (Column 453)
• On Experience, Internalization, and Study (Column 452)
• Social-Political Polarization: B. A Mathematical View (Column 451)
• Socio-Political Polarization: A. The Impasse (Column 450)
• Racism, Part II: Between One Who Serves God and One Who Does Not (Column 449)
• This Is the ‘Spasst Nisht’ Doctrine: The Prohibition of Civil Courts (Column 448)
• A Look at the Law of Destroying Idolatry in Our Times: The s’passt nisht Principle (Column 447)
• On Rulings for Women and the Laws of Stains (Rorschach) (Column 446)
• A Chosen People – A Look at Racism (Column 445)
• How Good That There Are Conservatives! (Column 444)
• What Do Piglet, the Lonely King, and the Prohibition of “Lo Tasur” Have to Do with Each Other? (Column 443)
• In Memory of Yoram Taharlev, of Blessed Memory (Column 442)
• Defining an Offense: Intention or Act? (Column 441)
• A Look at the Principle of Charity (Column 440)
• A View on Emotions in Discourse and Beyond—The Walder Affair (Column 439)
• A Lottery over Life (Column 438)
• The Law of a Pursuer in Mutual Pursuit (Column 437)
• “You Intended Evil Against Me”: Another Look at Divine Involvement in the World (Column 436)
• Mathematical Platonism—and Beyond (Column 435)
• Is Mathematics an Invention or a Discovery? (Column 434)
• Herem de-Rabbeinu Gershom and Get-Refusers (Column 433)
• The Duty of Disclosure in Married Life (Column 432)
• On *Shimush* (Apprenticeship), Study, and *Lamdanut* (Column 431)
• Notes on Hiddur in the Hanukkah Lamp (Column 430)
• A Look at Slippery-Slope Arguments (Column 429)
• “‘You Are Called Adam’: Reflections Following the Passing of Rabbi Shlomo Fisher z”l (Column 428)”
• A Look at the Privatization of Kashrut and, Above All, at the Debate About It (Column 427)
• A Look at Occam’s Razor (Column 426)
• Another Look at the Predicament of Secularism: How Do You Deal with an Empty Wagon? (Column 425)
• On Disconnecting a Patient from Life Support: The Case of Alta Fixsler (Column 424)
• Another Look at the Rabin Carnival (Column 423)
• The Logic Behind the Majority Criterion (Column 422)
• More on the Hierarchy between the Commandments and Life (Column 421)
• Why We “Killed” Yonatan, or: A Look at “Be Fruitful and Multiply” (Column 420)
• On Education and Educators (Column 419)
• Types of Mitzvot: 5. The “Tashbitu” Commandment (Column 418)
• Types of Commandments: 4. Different Kinds of Positive Commandments (Column 417)
• Types of Mitzvot: 3. Between Positive Commandments and Prohibitions—Continued (Column 416)
• Types of Mitzvot: 2. Between Aseh and Lo Ta’aseh (Column 415)
• Types of Mitzvot: 1. A Look at the Commandment of Fasting on Yom Kippur (Column 414)
• In Honor of Rosh Hashanah – More on Changing Positions (Column 413)
• The Proper Attitude Toward the Temple in Our Times (Column 412)
• Does Every Verse Teach the Opposite of What It Says? (Column 411)
• On the Controversy over Rabbi Melamed (Column 410)
• Another Look at Fundamentalism: Is Afghanistan Here? (Column 409)
• A Look at Pascal’s Wager and Expected-Value Reasoning (Column 408)
• Logical Loops and Self-Reference – Continued (Column 407)
• Logical Loops and Self-Reference (Column 406)
• Is Psychology a Science? (Column 405)
• More on Unfalsifiable Claims – A Halakhic Perspective (Column 404)
• Falsifiability (Column 403)
• On Statistical and Deterministic Implication (Column 402)
• Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers: Halakhic Aspects (Column 401)
• Quality and Quantity: Another Look at Bennett and Bibi (Column 400)

Columns 300–399

• Between Representation and Application (Column 399)
• A Look at the Film ‘Legend of Destruction’ (Column 398)
• The Prohibition of Electricity on Shabbat: A Philosophical Look at the Melakha of Boneh (Column 397)
• What Is a Jew and an Israeli According to Bennett (Column 396)
• Why Be Religious? (Column 395)
• “Turn from Evil and Do Good”: Notes on Bennett’s Move—and on Us (Column 394)
• The Role and Authority of the Mara De-Atra (Column 393)
• Mitzvot as Segulot (Column 392)
• A Contemporary Look at Narratives (Column 391)
• A Letter to the Despairing “Fedlaho'shit” (Column 390)
• "Until When Is the End of the Riots?": Another Look at the 5781 Riots (Column 389)
• A Look at the 5781 Riots (Column 388)
• Reflections Following the Meron Disaster (Column 387)
• More Pleasing to the Lord Than an Ox or Bull (Column 386)
• On Platonism – Second Continuation (Column 385)
• On Platonism – Continued (Column 384)
• On Platonism (Column 383)
• Confused? Change the Axes (Column 382)
• Representation and Nonverbal Thinking: 3. Linguistic Representation – Applications (Column 381)
• Representation and Nonverbal Thinking: 2. Linguistic Representation (Column 380)
• Representation and Non-Verbal Thinking: 1. Conceptual Representation (Column 379)
• Alon Bakhut and a Warning Alongside It: On a World That Is Fading Away (Column 378)
• The Relationship Between Warning and Punishment in Halakha (Column 377)
• The Limits of A Priori Thinking (Column 376)
• A Look at Personal Legislation and at Law in General (Column 375)
• On Subjective Dimensions in Halakha (Column 374)
• A Weighty and Awe-Inspiring Inquiry into the Law of a Tam Ox that Gored on a “Triple Purim” (Column 373)
• Moral Judgment of a Person According to His Own Approach (Column 372)
• Emotional Motivation and Intellectual Motivation: Between Emotion and Experience (Column 371)
• On Peshat and Derash (Column 370)
• A Look at the Relationship Between Inducement and Extortion in Compelling a Get (Column 369)
• A Few Words Following the Funeral of Ruth Dayan (Column 368)
• Self-Reference in Doing Repentance (Column 367)
• Instances of Self-Reference in Halakhah (Column 366)
• Shalom Hanoch’s Paradoxical Inclinations, or: A Poetic Look at Paradoxes (Column 365)
• Clarifications Regarding Ontological Arguments and Rationalism (Column 364)
• A Look at the Cogito: Cogito Ergo Sum (Column 363)
• The Moral Importance of Freedom, Honesty, and Intelligence (Column 362)
• On Mr. Shoshani, Questions of Identity and… Studying Tanakh (Column 361)
• On Two A Fortiori (Kal Va-Chomer) Arguments and the Secret of “Avodah Tzorekh Gavoah” (Column 360)
• More on Spiritual Solipsism – Second Follow-Up (Column 359)
• Further on Spiritual Solipsism – Continued (Column 358)
• More on Spiritual Solipsism (Column 357)
• Is the Torah a Guarantee of Proper Conduct (Column 356)
• Two Types of Derash Rules: A Look at Gezerah Shavah (Column 355)
• On Free Will and Its Meaning (Column 354)
• Between Forgiveness and Atonement: On Intention and Action (Column 353)
• Is My Theology Anorexic? On a New Hellenization (Column 352)
• Another Look at Declarative Halakhot (Column 351)
• Lighting Hanukkah Candles on the Internet (Column 350)
• Reflections Following the Film “Refused” (Column 349)
• Asymmetry Between Worldviews (Column 348)
• ‘The Common Denominator’ and ‘Conceptual Construction’ (Column 347)
• A Further Look at 'the Common Denominator' (Column 346)
• The Melakhah of *Hotza’ah*, Shabbat, and Our Function in the World (Column 345)
• Another Look at the Categorical Imperative in Halakha (Column 344)
• What Is a Mitzvah II: Between Obligation and Fulfillment (Column 343)
• What Is a Mitzvah I: The Role of Intention (Column 342)
• On Armchair Research and “Computational Archaeology” (Column 341)
• No One Has Power over the Spirit – A Response to Rabbi Shilat’s Critique (Column 340)
• A Look at Judaism and Jewish Identity – Part IV: “Struggle at the Jabbok Brook” (Column 339)
• A Look at Judaism and Jewish Identity: Part C (Column 338)
• A Look at Judaism and Jewish Identity: Part II (Column 337)
• A Look at Judaism and Jewish Identity: Part A (Column 336)
• ‘The Social Dilemma’: A Look at Social Networks (Column 335)
• On Mezuzot and Their Influence (Column 334)
• The Akedah and Its Meaning (Column 333)
• First-Order Ruling: The Wedding Ring as a Metaphor (Column 332)
• A Look at the Renewed Debate about Secularization (Column 331)
• On Zealotry, or: Projecting One’s Own Flaw (Column 330)
• On the Protests Against “The Jews Are Coming” — and a Bit About Protests in General (Column 329)
• On Education, Faith, Wisdom, and an Agenda (Column 328)
• Ontic and Epistemic Doubt VI: A Methodological Loop (Column 327)
• Ontic and Epistemic Doubt V: Pseudo-Ontic Doubt (Column 326)
• Ontic and Epistemic Doubt IV: The Doubt of *Pesik Reisha* (Column 325)
• Ontic and Epistemic Doubt C: Quantum Collapse in Halakha (Column 324)
• Ontic and Epistemic Doubt B: Halakhic Aspects (Column 323)
• Ontic and Epistemic Doubt A: A Scientific and Conceptual Introduction (Column 322)
• On Meaning and Purpose in Haredi Ideological Discourse (Column 321)
• “With the hidden matters of the Merciful—what is it to you?!”: A Look at a Talmudic Aggadah and Its Lessons (Column 320)
• A Logical Look at the “Trei u-Trei” Sugya (Column 319)
• “Included in Two Hundred Is a Maneh” (Column 318)
• The Pilpul Method, Rules of Discourse, and Silencing (Column 317)
• The Bastards Changed the Rules: A Look at Political Correctness (Column 316)
• Instead of a Lament: The Place of Religiosity in Religious Faith: E. The Hasidic Renaissance (Column 315)
• The Place of Religiosity in Religious Faith: D. On the Value in the Existence of Emotions and Experiences (Column 314)
• The Place of Religiosity in Religious Faith: C. Calm Emotionality (Column 313)
• The Place of Religiosity in Religious Faith: B. Religiosity and Surging Emotion (Column 312)
• The Place of Religiosity in Religious Faith: A. A General Overview (Column 311)
• Reflections on the Discourse Following the Interview with Yair Sheleg (Column 310)
• On Haredim and Singers (Column 309)
• Two Comments on the Presumption of a Mu'ad Ox (Column 308)
• Joining Two Witnesses in Monetary Cases – A Probabilistic Perspective (Column 307)
• What Is a Litigant's Admission? (Column 306)
• Haredi Reactions at the Corona Turning Point (Column 305)
• Autonomous Thinking versus Tradition and Authority (Column 304)
• The Question of Knowledge and Choice 4 (Column 303)
• The Question of Foreknowledge and Free Will 3 (Column 302)
• The Question of Knowledge and Choice 2 (Column 301)
• The High Court’s Involvement in the Appointment of a Prime Minister: The Depth of the Limbo (Column 300)

Columns 200–299

• The Question of Divine Foreknowledge and Free Will 1 (Column 299)
• Is There Divine Involvement in the World? (Column 298)
• On Double Causality – A Logical and Theological Perspective (Column 297)
• On Discrimination in the Provision of Services and Biases in the Discourse (Column 296)
• A Look at Intentions and Their Significance (Column 295)
• The Midrash of the Four Sons from a Philosophical and Logical Perspective: ‘Between One Who Serves God and One Who Has Not Served Him’ (Column 294)
• Are There Declarative Laws? (Column 293)
• On Pogroms and When to Criticize (Column 292)
• Be Killed Rather Than Transgress Theft (Column 291)
• On Critical Thinking in Light of the Coronavirus Crisis (Column 290)
• Halakhic Leniencies in the Days of Corona—and Their Breakdown (Column 289)
• The Two-Envelope Paradox (Column 288)
• A Look at Our Political-Legal Limbo: The Game of Chicken and Its Applications (Column 287)
• The Anna Karenina Principle (Column 286)
• On the Corona Homilies in Particular, and Homilies in General (Column 285)
• The War on Coronavirus – Systems Thinking (Column 284)
• A Chosen People? Shifting the Perspective from Guilt to Responsibility (Column 283)
• On the Law of “Let Us Make a Noise,” Rash Rash Rash, and Related Matters (Column 282)
• Two Reflections Following the Conference on the Trilogy (Column 281)
• Divine Involvement in the World – The Full Picture (Column 280)
• Another Look at “The Falsehood of Hishtadlut” (Column 279)
• Bread of Shame – Another Look at Jewish Thought (Column 278)
• The Layperson's Role at This Time (Column 277)
• For the sin we have sinned before You through inattention (Column 276)
• On the Role and Authority of a Halakhic Decisor (Column 275)
• On Sayings and Rules (Column 274)
• A Look at Adulation – In the Wake of Kobe Bryant, of Blessed Memory (Column 273)
• Another Look at Tanakh and Morality (Column 272)
• On Politics, Youth Movements, and Divine Providence (Column 271)
• What Is Bad About Death? (Column 270)
• Friendship Tested by Religious Values (Column 269)
• Kabbalah, Mysticism, and Spiritual Intuitions – Continued (Column 268)
• Kabbalah, Mysticism, and Spiritual Intuitions (Column 267)
• Two Moral Axes (Column 266)
• The 'Lev Tahor' Cult as a Parable (Column 265)
• Some Reflections in Memory of Geula Cohen, of Blessed Memory (Column 264)
• On Conservatism, Rationality, and Style of Expression (Column 263)
• Response to Rabbi Moshe Ratt's Post on the Trilogy (Column 262)
• A Birthday for the Trilogy (Column 261)
• May Your Mercies Reach the Bird's Nest: On Morality, Jewish Law, and Interpreting the Torah (Column 260)
• On Religious Experience (Column 259)
• The Purse and the Sword – A Look at the State of the Legal System and Society in Israel (Column 258)
• What Is Jewish Law: The Rationales or the Bottom Line? (Column 257)
• On the Presumption of Innocence and Other Animals (Column 256)
• Another Look at Expected Value as a Criterion for Decision-Making (Column 255)
• A Mathematical Perspective on Consequentialist Ethics – The Halakhic Angle (Column 254)
• A Mathematical Perspective on Consequentialist Ethics – Kagan and the Heap Paradox (Column 253)
• A Mathematical Look at Consequentialist Ethics – Parfit (Column 252)
• A Debate over Definitions – Between Semantics and Essence (Column 251)
• Did We Invent Everything? (Column 250)
• “The New Religious Conservatism”: Between Innovation and Preservation (Column 249)
• Another Look at Philosophy and Disagreement (Column 248)
• Peer Disagreement, or: Why Isn't the Other Person Right Like Me? (Column 247)
• Meaning of "Kol Nidrei" (Column 246)
• A Note on the Nature of the Columns and the Comments on Them (Column 245)
• Moral Evaluation of a Person Who Acted According to a Disputed Position (Column 244)
• On Interpretive Integrity and Dealing with Difficulties and Contradictions (Column 243)
• Between Gedaliah and Rabin, or: On the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and Current Events (Column 242)
• Rosh Hashanah Column: On Judgment and Kindness (Column 241)
• On the Moral Saint (Column 240)
• The Dark Side of Platonism (Column 239)
• On Metaphysical Considerations in Formulating Ideology (Column 238)
• A Proposed Explanation of the Rule of 'Kavua' (Column 237)
• On Spiritual Solipsism (Column 236)
• Commandments That a Person Treads Underfoot – Some Reflections (Column 235)
• What Is a Smear? (Column 234)
• Separate but equal – on ‘Haredi’ women’s lobbies (Column 233)
• A Look at Cessation on Tisha B'Av and Yom Kippur (Column 232)
• On Our Family and Yours (Column 231)
• What Is the Difference Between an Object-Based Law and a Person-Based Law? (Column 230)
• On Lame Explanations and Shadow Concepts (Column 229)
• On Statistics and Law – Continued (Column 228)
• Raising Children and Gang Rape: Between Psychology and Logic (Column 227)
• Statistics and Law: Legal and Probabilistic Reasoning (Column 226)
• On Conversion Therapy and the Problems in the Discourse About It (Column 225)
• On Religious Courts and Their Conduct—Then and Now (Column 224)
• The Meaning of Disputes in Philosophy: The Law for Bringing the French and Their Helpers to Justice (Column 223)
• The Need for a 'Thin' Theology (Column 222)
• Trivial Rules as Negative Rules: On Psychology and Logic (Column 221)
• On the Meaning of the Giving of the Torah (Column 220)
• Applying Jewish Law as the Law of the State (Column 219)
• On People with Asperger's and Human Beings (Column 218)
• A Tale of Two Conservative Conferences in Our City (Column 217)
• Saint Hitler, or: On the Sanctity of the Holocaust (Column 216)
• The Sanctity of a Jew Who Died Because of His Jewishness: “Mistaken Sanctifications” (Column 215)
• Evil in the World as Fire Damage (Column 214)
• On the Connection between Universality and Artistic Value: Following Asaf Inbari's Article on Religious-Zionist Art (Column 213)
• Are There Any Secular People in the World? Thoughts in the Wake of the Notre-Dame Fire (Column 212)
• On the Meaning of Koans (Column 211)
• Is It Worth Going to Vote? Another Look at Hindsight Statistics (Column 210)
• From Individuals to a People: On the Meaning of the Passover Offering (Column 209)[1]
• On Religiosity and Libertarianism: A Response to Persico (Column 208)
• On the 'Zehut' Party as an Oasis (Column 207)
• On Haredi Racism (Column 206)
• On the dictum that the wicked, even in their lifetime, are called dead (Column 205)
• On False Consciousness Arguments: Examples (Column 204)
• On False Consciousness Arguments (Column 203)
• On Atomic and Compound Propositions – Between Positive Commandments and Prohibitions (Column 202)
• On Polyamory and Other Animals – Another Look at Moral Values (Column 201)
• The Logical Polygraph: On Liars and Human Beings (Column 200)

Columns 100–199

• On Idolatry as Split Consciousness, and on Sins in General (Column 199)
• On the Film 'Three Identical Strangers' (Column 198)
• On Robbers and Games (Column 197)
• Paradox and Anti-Paradox – Examples (Column 196)
• Paradox and Anti-Paradox in the World and in Jewish Law (Column 195)
• On Unconscious Worldviews – Continued: Unconscious Unbelief (Column 194)
• Two Types of Counting: Quantity and Quality (Column 193)
• On Commandments and Facts (Column 192)
• On Unconscious Worldviews and Counting Someone for a Minyan (Column 191)
• The Shtreimel Policy – Lighting the Hanukkah Menorah Inside the House (Column 190)
• On Voting: Lesser-Evil Considerations (Column 189)
• On Universalism (Column 188)
• The Dependence of Spiritual Judgment on Time (Column 187)
• "And you shall be like God, knowing good and evil": On Technological Phobias (Column 186)
• Go Vote: On Policy and Reactivity (Column 185)
• From Marxism through 'the New Criticism' to Academic Nonsense 7 (Column 184)
• From Marxism through 'the New Criticism' to Academic Nonsense 6 (Column 183)
• From Marxism through "the New Critique" to Academic Nonsense 5 (Column 182)
• From Marxism through "New Criticism" to Academic Nonsense 4 (Column 181)
• From Marxism via “the New Critique” to Academic Nonsense 3 (Column 180)
• From Marxism through "the New Criticism" to Academic Nonsense 2 (Column 179)
• From Marxism through “the New Critique” to Academic Nonsense, Part 1 (Column 178)
• Conventions and Rational Truths: The Public’s Role in Shaping Values (Column 177)
• The Argument against Determinism – A Probabilistic Calculation (Column 176)
• On Choice and Judgment (Column 175)
• Hakafot and Their Downside: On "Your miracles that are with us every day," and on a few other matters (Column 174)
• On Weakness of Will – The Solution (Column 173)
• On Weakness of the Will – The Problem (Column 172)
• A Look at the Halakhic Status of Ethiopian Immigrants (Column 171)
• The Secret of Service as a Divine Need: A Homily on Repentance (Column 170)
• Singing Tears with the Sound of the Shofar (Column 169)
• On Translating Moral Ideas into Ontic Terms (Column 168)
• The Importance of Terminology: A Look at the Background to BDS and Boycotts in General (Column 167)
• The Role of Context in Halakhic Ruling: A Look at Academic Explanation and Halakhic Argument (Column 166)
• The Vicious Circle of the Full and Empty Wagon (Column 165)
• Death Penalty for Terrorists: A Halakhic Position on the Question of Authority (Column 164)
• What Is a Rabbi, and Who Counts as One? (Column 163)
• A Poetic View of Torah Study and Halakhic Decision-Making (Column 162)
• The Nation-State Law: From Holocaust to Rebirth (Column 161)
• What Is Philosophy: An Ontological Proof of the Existence of Philosophy, or: Gödel on the Existence of God (Column 160)
• What Is Philosophy: On Happiness and Meaning (Column 159)
• What Is Philosophy—On "The Cat That Isn't There": B. The Transformation of Detachment (Column 158)
• What Is Philosophy – On ‘The Cat That Isn’t There’: A. Circularity (Column 157)
• What Is Philosophy? – Continued (Column 156)
• What Is Philosophy? (Column 155)
• On Aesthetic Values (Column 154)
• From the Songs of the Land I Love: An Aesthetic Look at Homeland Studies (Column 153)
• More on Racism – The Barkan Wineries Case (Column 152)
• The Kite Pursuers — Between Right and Left (Column 151)
• On Interpretations of Statistical Findings and Their Meaning: Are We Becoming Dumber, and Why? (Column 150)
• On Education, Security, and Policy: The Importance of the Middle Way (Column 149)
• Annulment of Kiddushin and Women Denied a Get – The Halakhic Layer (Column 148)
• Annulment of Kiddushin and Women Denied a Get – The Paradoxical Structure (Column 147)
• What Is a Disease, or: Is Obesity a Disease, and Why? (Column 146)
• Halakhic Examples of Errors in the Use of Conditional Probability (Column 145)
• The Physico-Theological Argument — A Probabilistic Elaboration (Column 144)
• A Look at Quality and Undefined Concepts (Column 143)
• On Briskerism and Experience (Column 142)
• Cupid and Other Animals: Why Get Married? (Column 141)[1]
• On Existentialism (Column 140)
• There Were Two Rabbi Elishivs – Words in Memory of Rabbi Elishiv Knohl, of Blessed Memory (Column 139)
• Miriam Peretz's Speech – An Appendix to the Columns on the Tanakh (Column 138)
• On Accommodation and Coercion (Column 137)
• On Ceremonies, Organizations, and Demonstrations (Column 136)
• Reflections on Studying Tanakh – Summary and Clarifications (Column 135)
• Reflections on Studying the Tanakh (Column 134)
• Of Monkeys and Men – More Pearls from Maran Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef (Column 133)
• The Sale of Leavened Food and Halakhic Formalism (Column 132)
• The servant of the Lord alone is free: 6. Conclusion: On Constraints and Variety – A Look at Freedom and Liberty in Art (Column 131)
• Only the Servant of God Is Free: 5. On Secular Jewish Identity – “Our Nation Is a Nation Only Through Its Torahs” (Column 130)
• A Servant of God Alone Is Free: 4. On George Orwell, Karl Popper, and Isaiah Berlin (Column 129)
• Only the Servant of God Is Free: 3. A Second Look at Rabbinicity and Sovereignty (Column 128)
• Only the Servant of God Is Free: 2. Defining Concepts: Freedom and Liberty (Column 127)
• Only the Servant of God Is Free: 1. On the Basic Problem (Column 126)
• On Secrecy, Ambiguity, and Equality Before the Law (Column 125)
• Reflections on the Passing of R. Benjamin David Levi, of Blessed Memory (Column 124)
• More on Women and Feminism (Following the Statements of the Rabbis of Eli. Column 123)
• Another Look at Altruism: The Categorical Imperative and the Prisoner's Dilemma (Column 122)
• Between the Zomet Institute and the Weizmann Institute, or: The Importance of the Sexton (Column 121)
• Is There an Act Without a Motive? (Column 120)
• On Means and Ends, Rules and Models (Column 119)[1]
• "Words Can Kill": A Look at Contemporary Antisemitism and Freedom of Expression (Column 118)
• On the me too campaign and its ramifications (Column 117)
• Impressions and Insights from the "Forum for Civil Agreement" Conference (Column 116)
• Tu BiShvat and Perek Shirah (Column 115)
• On the Disabled and Threats of Suicide: Threat and Undue Influence (Column 114)
• On Poetry, Torah, and Hasidism: The Final Chord (Column 113)
• What Is Poetry: VI. The Meaning of the Entire Argument (Column 112)
• What Is Poetry: V. Between Poetry and Literature (Column 111)
• What Is Poetry: D. The Complex Map (Column 110)
• What Is Poetry: C. The Initial Definition (Column 109)
• What Is Poetry: B. Methodological Preliminaries (Column 108)
• What Is Poetry: A. Presenting the Problem (Column 107)
• On a Text and Its Meaning: A Continuation of the Previous Columns (Column 106)
• More on Hasidism: Examples (Column 105)
• On Hasidism, Women, and What Lies Between Them (Column 104)
• Salah, This Is the Land of Israel: A Different Look at the Failings of Immigration from North Africa (Column 103)
• Notes on the High Court, Litzman, and the Sabbath (Column 102)
• On Changes in Jewish Law and the Question of Authority (Column 101)
• The Relationship Between Intuition and Recursive Thinking: Puzzles, Intelligence, and Intelligence Tests (Column 100)

Columns 1–99

• On Psychophysics and the Laws of Sukkah (Column 99)
• On Meretz's Zionism: Slogans Versus Substance (Column 98)
• On Secular Prayer and Its Meaning (Column 97)
• On the Traditional Family and Postmodern "Left-Talk" (Column 96)
• A Look at Fictions in Jewish Law and Beyond (Column 95)
• On the Meaning of the High Holy Days: Good Wishes to the Readers and a Request for Their Forgiveness (Column 94)
• Tangles in Systems of Rules (Column 93)
• Reflections on the Resignation of MK Guetta (Column 92)
• On Repentance in an Earthly Court (Column 91)
• Angels as Human Beings: On Hanoch Daum's The Hidden Rabbi (Column 90)
• A Look at the Ministry of Non-Education: Grades, Values, and Learning (Column 89)
• Forecasts and Modern Primitivism (Column 88)
• On Retroactive Proofs: The Writing on the Wall and After-the-Fact Wisdom (Column 87)
• Is Morality in the Gut or in the Head, and Why Does It Matter? (Column 86)
• "The New Likudniks" – Another Look at Failures of Representation (Column 85)
• State's Witnesses: A Bleak Look at Jewish Law and Our Contemporary Rabbis (Column 84)
• A Look at the Meaning of the Destruction: Conduct According to Rules (Column 83)
• Why Does Excellence Have Such a Bad Name Among Us? A Post in Memory of the Labor Party (Column 82)
• “A Person Lives Within Himself”? (Column 81)
• The Western Wall Compromise and the Conversion Law: Another Look at Normative Duality (Column 80)
• Majority in a Religious Court and in General (Column 79)
• More on Prayer (Column 78)
• The Synagogue as a Venue for Preaching to a Captive Audience: Another Look at Prayer (Column 77)
• Conflicting or Complementary Perspectives? (Column 76)
• "And Do Not Stray After Your Eyes" – On Superficiality in the Perception of Facts (Column 75)
• On Labels and Discussions, or: Am I an Apikoros? (Column 74)
• On Abortions: Jewish Law, Morality, and Public Debate (Column 73)
• The Meaning of the Giving of the Torah: Decision and Necessity (Column 72)
• The Meaning of the Giving of the Torah: Observance of Commandments Without a Commander (Column 71)
• On the Appointment of Women as Judges in Rabbinical Courts (Column 70)
• The Meaning of Majority: Is the Majority Right? (Column 69)
• Philosophical Reflections on Memory (Column 68)
• Lessons of the Holocaust – On Fundamentalism, Atrocities, and Autonomy (Column 67)
• The Meaning of a Majority: Does the Majority Decide? (Column 66)
• Passover Column: Between Leaven and the Evil Inclination – Another Look at Homiletics (Column 65)
• On Public Broadcasting and Freedom of the Press (Column 64)
• On Style and Substance – Clarifications and Basic Assumptions for Readers of the Website (Column 63)
• A Look at Am Ha'aratzut (Column 62)
• On Gypsies and Thieves (Column 61)
• Nonsense Studies: Between Agenda and Science (Column 60)
• On Reading the Bodleian Scroll in a Time of Need (Column 59)
• The Meaning and Importance of Women’s Lamdanut (Analytical Talmudic Learning), and of Lamdanut in General (Column 58)
• On Lamdanut as a Talmudic Paradigm (Column 57)
• Publishing Women's Articles in Torah Journals: The Case of 'Asif' (Column 56)
• A Look at Postmodernism and Truth – Fake News – Continued (Column 55)
• The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Column 54)
• A Look at Postmodernism and Truth – fake news (Column 53)
• Derush, Pilpul, Love of the Jewish People, and Segulat Yisrael (Column 52)
• On Moral Numbness: Demonstrations, Kippah-Wearers, and Animal Rights (Column 51)
• More on the Relation between Theory and Reality: The Meaning of Logic and Mathematics (Column 50)
• Bottom-up or top-down? (Column 49)
• Reverse Logic in the Service of Anti-Establishmentarianism (Column 48)
• Somber Reflections on Our Theory of Punishment (Column 47)
• “The People Are with Elor” (A letter I sent this morning. Column 46)
• On Indifference and Denial – Our Attitude toward Animals (Column 45)
• “What Is the Difference Between My Son and My Father-in-Law’s Son”: The Hanukkah Menorah and the Christmas Tree (Column 44)
• More on Incitement (Column 43)
• On Incitement (Column 42)
• Further Reflections on the Quality of Our Public Discourse: The Regulation Law, the Rule of Law, and the Honor of the High Court of Justice (Column 41)
• On Feminist Theology (Column 40)
• "Through the Wall": Between Theology and Life (Column 39)
• The Law of Small Numbers: What Do 'Breaking the Silence' and Alternative Medicine Have in Common? (Column 38)
• A Halakhic Perspective on Obeying the Laws of the State (Column 37)
• On the Phenomenon of Leaving the Religious Path (Column 36)
• What Is Intelligence? On Free Will and Judgment (Column 35)
• On Supporting Torah: The Need for a New Social Contract (Column 34)
• A Journey Through Time (Column 33)
• A Look at the Value and Meaning of Repentance (Column 32)
• On Faith and Rationality (Column 31)
• More on Complex Evaluation: Reflections on Shimon Peres (Column 30)
• Of Wolves and Men: A Nuanced Assessment of People (Column 29)
• Bennett's Dilemma, or: What Is More Important, Judaism or Mathematics and Science? (Column 28)
• On the Meaning of "Intimations of Elul," or: Elul in Lithuania (Column 27)
• On Deviance, Expertise, and Values – A Response to Prof. Yoram Yovel’s Article, ‘They Are Not Deviants,’ Shabbat Supplement, Parashat Eikev – Follow-up Column (Column 26)
• On Deviance, Expertise, and Values – A Response to Prof. Yoram Yuval’s Article, “They Are Not Deviants,” Musaf Shabbat, Parashat Ekev (Column 25)
• On "Studies" and Their Significance – Part Two (Column 24)
• On "Studies" and Their Significance (Column 23)
• On Love: Between Emotion and Intellect (Column 22)
• On 'Holy Lies' (Column 21)
• On Rationality (Column 20)
• On Movements and Cults in Judaism: What Do Har HaMor and Chabad Have in Common? (Column 19)
• Who Wants a State Governed by Jewish Law? (Column 18)
• On Aphorisms, Songs, and Koans, and Their Meaning (Column 17)
• More on the Rabbi Karim Controversy: Homosexuality, Refusal of Orders, Burning the "New Testament," and the Nature of Women (Column 16)
• Rape in the Time of Battle: Jewish Law and Morality (Column 15)
• On the Holocaust and Identity: In Memory of Elie Wiesel, of Blessed Memory (Column 14)
• On Means and Ends, or: The Importance of Seriousness (Column 13)
• On Ritual Baths: Between Jewish Law and Civil Law (Column 12)
• The Trojan Horse Effect – On Allocating Funding Only to Democratic Parties (Column 11)
• What Is Racism? (Column 10)
• On Politics, Media, and Information (Column 9)
• Between Seduction and Rape (Column 8)
• What Is Memory? On the Modern Transition from the Ontic to the Mental (Column 7)
• On Freedom of Expression, Holocaust Denial, and 'Do Not Stray' (Column 6)
• The Right and the Left on Racism (Column 5)
• Should a Fast Day Be Instituted in Jewish Law to Commemorate the Holocaust? (Column 4)
• On conducting private marriages more properly, or: How to contribute your modest part to toppling the Chief Rabbinate (Column 3)
• On the "Decree" of Kitniyot, Conservatism, and Desecration of God's Name (Column 2)
• On Complex Thinking and the Conflation of Levels of Discussion: The Case of the Soldier Who Fired (Column 1)

Other Articles

• "Do Not Fear Any Man": The Status of the Individual within the Collective
• 'Compelled by Reason': On Insularity, Openness, and the Internet
• 'Researcher' and 'Covenant Member' – On Whether the Dilemma Exists
• 'The Third Way,' or: On 'Religious Zionism' without a Hyphen
• A Discourse for Lag BaOmer
• A Fine Pilpul on Parashat Vayera by Rabbi Yehonatan Eybeschutz (in Nefesh Yehonatan)
• A Gentile Unrecognized by Jewish Law
• A Lecture on the Law of 'Migu' and an Attached Booklet on 'Legal Rationales'
• A Letter to the Yeshiva – A Critique of Haredism
• A Note on Strained Linguistic Readings in the Mishnah
• A Perspective on Women's Torah Study and Women's Scholarship
• A Platonic Perspective on Ukimtot
• A Religious Jew and a Secular Zionist
• A Response to a Response – The Article 'What Is Halut'
• A Systematic Perspective on Free Will
• A Systematic View of the Relationship Between Evolution and Faith
• Abraham Our Patriarch and His Hat: In Praise of Assuming the Conclusion
• Academic Research and the Prohibition of Touch
• After the Death of Those Slain in the Land of Israel (In Place of a Lament)
• After the Passing of Maran Rabbi Shach, of Blessed Memory
• Annulment of Kiddushin by Force of a Conclusive Presumption[1]
• Another Look at "God of the Gaps" (Following the Discovery of Radiation from the Big Bang)
• Another Look at the Duty of the Individual in a Public Role
• Are 'transgressor' and 'wicked person' synonyms?
• Autonomy and Authority in Halakhic Ruling
• Ballad of a Foundling (Ketubot 15b)
• Between Greece and Israel: Aspects of Torah Study
• Between Humility and Modesty
• Between Jews and Non-Jews: On the Relationship Between Jewish Law and Reality
• Between My Territory and the Other's Territory: On Duties and Rights in Jewish Law and Their Meaning
• Between Research and 'Iyyun': The Hermeneutics of Canonical Texts
• Between the Haskalah and the Internet
• Beyond Fundamentalism and Skepticism
• Brief Lessons on Commandments and What Lies Beyond Them
• Can One “Become a Resident” in the Land of Israel in the Middle of the Second Festival Day?
• Causing a Secular Jew to Sin – A Response to a Comment
• Clarifications Regarding the Transgressions of Secular Jews
• Commandment, Reasoning, and the Will of God – An Analysis of the Measure and Mode of Separating Terumah
• Concerning the Market Ordinance
• Conservatism and Innovation
• Contemporary Aspects of the Problem of the Individual and the Collective, and the 'Defensive Shield' Dilemma
• Conversion, Naturalization, and the Separation of Religion and State
• Cupid and Other Animals: Why Get Married?[1]
• Darkness and Blindness
• Did Zionism Ever Have a 'Role'?
• Does Evolution Bear on the Question of Belief in God?
• Faith and Science – Part 3
• Faith and Science – Part 4
• Faith and Science – Part 7
• Faith and Science – Part I
• Faith and Science – Part II
• Faith and Science – Part V
• Faith and Science – Part VI
• Freedom and Liberty
• Gates of Conversion – On Violence and Good Intentions
• Gay Men with a Child? Some Rabbis Would Congratulate Them
• Geneivat Da'at and Intellectual Property
• General Introduction and Foundations of the Laws of Charity
• Giving a Get – Anatomy of a "Process"
• Gratitude: Between Morality and Ontology
• Hebrew Law – A Response to the Responses
• Homiletic Interpretation, Plain Sense, and Homiletic Interpretation: One May Expound Only in a Way Akin to the Plain Sense
• Honoring Parents and Halakhic Territory
• How Can I Curse Whom God Has Not Cursed, and How Can I Denounce Whom the Lord Has Not Denounced?
• In Response to "A Gentile Whom Jewish Law Did Not Recognize"
• In Response to "Academic Research and the Prohibition of Touch"
• In Response to the Haredi Demonstration and the Chief Rabbinate Elections
• Induction and Analogy in Jewish Law: A Study of Maimonides' Second Principle
• Introductory Lecture to Tractate Sukkah: The Object's Prerequisite and the Act's Prerequisite
• Is Belief in Logical Contradictions Possible?[1]
• Is Jewish Law 'Hebrew Law'? On Religion, Morality, and Law
• Is Jewish Law Pluralistic?
• Is Kiddushin an Imposition of Ownership? – Following Rivka Lubitch's Article
• Is Repentance a Commandment?
• Is There Any Point in Voting in Elections?
• Is There an 'Enlightened' Idolatry? On Attitudes Toward Gentiles and Changes in Jewish Law
• Jewish Law and Reality – What Halakhic Expertise Is
• Jewish and Democratic – On Nationhood and Religion, Conversion, and the Separation of Religion and State
• Killing a Thief to Protect Property
• Leisure in Jewish Law
• Letter to Yedioth Following the Ban on Renting Apartments to Non-Jews
• Limiting Childbearing in Jewish Law
• Logical Hermeneutical Principles as the Building Blocks of Non-Deductive Inferences – Part II
• Maimonides' Rules for Counting the Commandments*
• Maimonides' Theory of Punishment
• Memory and Memorial Days: Between Remembrance and Visitation
• More on Ockham's Razor
• Myth and Historical Truth
• On 'A Transgression for the Sake of Heaven'
• On Beautification in the Hanukkah Lights
• On Causing a Secular Jew to Sin
• On Commandments and Parts of Commandments – An Analysis of the Nature of Concepts in Jewish Law and in General
• On Discrimination and Racism toward Haredim
• On Festivals of Judgment and a Festival of Grace
• On Jewish Identity in Our Time and in General
• On Jewish Law and Theology
• On Leniency and Stringency
• On Mathematics, Democracy, and Trojan Horses
• On Modern Orthodoxy, 'Winks,' and the Use of Higher-Order Considerations
• On One Who Intentionally Takes His Own Life, and on Converts in Our Time (beginning on page 60)
• On Pesik Reisha (an inevitable consequence) in Rabbinic Prohibitions in the Talmudic Passage of a Lamp on a Table (Shabbat 120b)
• On Quantum Theory and Contradictory Claims/Beliefs
• On Repentance, Atonement, and Punishment
• On Repentance: Between Technique and Essence
• On Sin, Repentance, and Changing History
• On Theft
• On Two Figures of the Torah Scholar, or: The Rabbi for the Community or the Community for the Rabbi
• On the "New Sanhedrin"
• On the 'Seam' Between Haredi Judaism and Religious Zionism
• On the Anti-Racist Madness Spreading Among Us
• On the Meaning of Blowing the Shofar
• On the Nature of Jacob’s Testament to His Sons
• On the Obligation to Pay for Damage Caused by One’s Property
• On the Proper Methodology in the Study of Jewish Thought and the Humanities
• On the Public Debate over Conversion
• On the Status of the City of Jericho with Respect to Walled Cities, and What Follows from It
• On the Two Goats
• Ordinary Life Imbued with Sacred Purity
• Organ Donation[1]
• Paradox and Anti-Paradox in Halakhic Decision-Making
• Pardes: Esotericists and Exotericists (Lag BaOmer 5761)
• Property Law in Jewish Law and Civil Law
• Rabbi Michael Abraham to Moti Yogev: Your rabbis are not my rabbis. I feel betrayed
• Rabbi Michael Abraham: "There is no prohibition whatsoever on a same-sex couple raising a child"
• Rabbi Michael Abraham: Supports the surrogacy law; opposes the law barring same-sex marriage; criticizes the Ministry of Health warning
• Rabbi Yagel – A Eulogy
• Repealing and Revising Enactments in Our Time
• Replies to Roi Tzazna's Response to the Faith and Science Series on ynet
• Response to the Criticism of “God Plays Dice”
• Responses to Zvi Yanai's Response to the Faith and Science Series on ynet
• Rulings of Jewish Law during the Holocaust and Their Significance for Future Generations
• Sacred and Mundane in Hanukkah and Beyond
• Searching for God in the World
• Separation of Siamese Twins
• Short Pieces
• Should One Go Vote in Elections?
• Simultaneous Subordination to Normative Systems Parallel to the Will of God
• The "Heftza" of Torah – A Response to Rabbi Yehuda Rak's Article
• The 'Categorical Imperative' in Jewish Law
• The A Fortiori Argument as a Syllogism – An Arithmetic Model
• The Arbitrariness of the Will in Leibowitz's Thought – Positivism and Pluralism
• The Basis of Liability for Damage Caused by One's Property: On the Nature of Analytic 'Inquiries'[1]
• The Boundaries Between Sacred and Secular in the Library
• The Chief Rabbinate — the Dream and Its Shattering, or: the Institution and Its Harm
• The Consideration of External Values in Jewish Law
• The Dismissal of the Attorney General: This Is What Happens When the Two Political Camps Look at the Empty Half of the Glass
• The Halakhic Status of Hermeneutical Methods – Analogy and Induction in Jewish Law
• The Haredi Demonstration and the Elections to the Rabbinate
• The Harm Caused by Eating Citric Acid on Passover Unknowingly
• The Logical Hermeneutic Principles as the Cornerstones of Non-Deductive Inferences – Part I
• The Logical Status of the Hermeneutical Methods
• The Meaning of Religious Zionism in Our Time
• The Nature of the Guilt Offering
• The Obligation to Cover a Woman’s Hair – A Critical Study of Rabbi Yosef Messas’s Responsum, and a Note on the Place of Agenda-Driven Interpretation in Halakhic Exegesis
• The Pamphlet 'Adding Hevel'
• The Personal Status of a Convert: Discrimination or Social Status?[1]
• The Platonic Meaning of Emotions in Jewish Law
• The Price of Tolerance
• The Relationship Between Faith and Science as a Drama in Five Acts
• The Representativeness Fallacy in Jewish Law
• The Talmudic DNA
• The Verse Repeats It to Make It Indispensable — On the Meaning of the Command in Sacrificial Matters
• The halakhic justification for using the divine appellation in the book "God Plays Dice"
• To Scout and to See: On Two Conceptions of Reality
• Tohu and Bohu: On Philosophical 'Conservation Laws' – Another Look at the Relationship Between Science and Philosophy
• Torah Reasoning and Its Halakhic Status
• Torah with Derekh Eretz – A New Model for the Yeshiva High School
• Tractate Sanhedrin (Registered Association)[1]
• Tu BiShvat and Perek Shirah[1]
• Two Types of 'Mah ha-Tzad': Conceptual Construction
• Was Einstein Wrong? "God Plays Dice"
• We already lost the battle in academia back in elementary school
• What Do the Haredi Demonstration Against Conscription and the Chief Rabbinate Elections Have to Do with Each Other?
• What Do the Sciatic Nerve and Leavened Food on Passover Have to Do with One Another? The Historical Origins of These Eating Prohibitions and Their Implications for Their Halakhic Definition
• What Is 'Chalut': Learning, Logic, and Devekut
• What Is Money?
• What Is a "Messianic Movement"? An Application to the Case of Zionism
• What Is a 'Scriptural Decree'?[1] (An Analysis of the Law of Conspiring Witnesses)
• What Would I Change in the Education System?
• Wherever We Say 'On That Day,' It Was That Very Day — One Decisive Day in the Development of the Oral Torah
• Who Is a Jew and What Is Judaism – An Introduction to the Issue of Conversion
• Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge – On the Dialectic of Torah Study and Academic Research
• Zeno's Arrow and Modern Physics[1]
• ‘It Is Not in Heaven’—But How Do We Nonetheless Draw Near?
• “Four Guardians and Three Sets of Laws” (The Proprietary Rights of the Renter and the Borrower as a Basis for Classifying the Types of Guardians)
• “He Requites the Wicked with Evil According to His Wickedness” — Really?