Articles

Faith, Science, and Philosophy:

• Faith and Science Series – Ynet 2011 (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7)
• Responses to Zvi Yanai's response to the Faith and Science series on Ynet
• Responses to Roy Tsezana's response to the Faith and Science series on Ynet
• Was Einstein wrong? "God plays dice" (ynet -2011)
• Response to the review: Was Einstein wrong? "God plays dice" (ynet -2011)
• In Praise of the Desired Assumption – Proofs of Faith (Tzohar – 2003)
• Does evolution have anything to do with belief in God? (NRG – 2014)
• Occam's Razor (Bed. 44 – 5772)
• Philosophical Conservation Laws (Bar Ilan website – 2011)
• Zeno's Cross and Modern Physics (Review – 1997)
• Another Look at the "God of the Gaps" (Israel Today – 2014)
• Philosophical Gratitude (Talley Orot – 2009)
• Searching for God in the World (Ten Years of 'Be' - 5773)
• Is belief in logical contradictions possible? (Unpublished – 2012)
• Subjection to Parallel Normative Systems (Unpublished – 2006)
• The Arbitrariness of Will in Leibowitz's Doctrine (Unpublished – 2006)
• Freedom and Liberty (Unpublished – 2011)
• Wisdom, Intelligence, and Knowledge – On the Dialectic of Torah Study and Academic Research (Noon)
• A systematic look at the relationship between evolution and faith – From the book "To know your way in the land"
• A systematic look at free will – From the book "To know your way in the land"
• Biblical Cosmology: Is the Earth Round? (Knowing to Believe website)
• "Strange" Discussions in the Gemara (Knowing to Believe website)
• The myth of violence in the name of religion (Knowing to Believe website)
• Neuroscience and the Law: A Philosophical-Scientific Perspective on Determinism in Law
• On Quantum Theory and Contradictory Claims/Beliefs

Halacha:

• Halachic justification for the use of the epithet in the book "God Plays Dice" (not yet published – 2016)
• The Halakhic Status of Ger (Asif – 2013)
• Refreshing Halakhic Methodology (The Orthodox Forum)
• Cancellation of Kiddushin on the grounds of "Adeta Dehaki" (Book of Dead End - 5774)
• Leisure in Halacha (The Front Behind the Back – 2008)
• On Robbery (The Front in the Home Front – 2007)
• Autonomy and Authority in Halacha Ruling (Mishram – 2003)
• Honoring Parents and Halachic Territory (Mishram – 2006)
• Between my territory and the territory of others – on duties and rights in Halacha and their meaning (Mishram – 2012)
• A critical study of Rabbi Mashash's responsa on head coverings (unpublished – 2010)
• The Failure of Representation in Halacha (Asia – 2012)
• Annual program for studying the laws of charity (including lessons) – Yeshiva Yerucham (2003)
• Birth Control in Halacha (Unpublished – 2011)
• Cancellation and modification of regulations today (unpublished – 2011)
• Between Kola and Gumra (Book in Honor of Rabbi Sperber – 2014)
• Is Halacha pluralistic? (HaMa'ayan – 2007)
• Regarding the one who loses himself in knowledge and regarding the Christians of our time - starting on page 60 (HaMa'yan – 5700)
• Paradox and Anti-Paradox in Halacha (HaMa'ayan – 5771)
• On Conservatism and Innovation (unpublished – 1996)
• Property Law in Halacha and Law (Years of Life – Book of Mekor Chaim – 2011)
• Is Halacha 'Hebrew Law'? – On Religion, Morals and Law (Akademut – 5765)
• Is Halacha 'Hebrew Law'? – A Response to Comments (Akademut – 2005)
• Is there 'enlightened' idolatry? – On the attitude towards Gentiles and changes in Halacha (Akademut – 2007)
• On Mitzvot and Parts of Mitzvot – A Study of the Essence of Concepts in Halacha and in General (Akademut – 2008)
• What is halachic expertise? (Tzohar – 5761)
• The Halachic Status of the Methods of Sermon – Analogy and Induction in Halachic (Tzohar – 5763)
• The Categorical Order in Halacha (Tzohar – 5768)
• Historical Prohibitions in Halacha (Sinai – 2009)
• The Doctrine of Halakhic Punishment (Alon Shvut – Graduates – 1995)
• Reference to External Values in Halacha (Unpublished – 2011)
• Sisyphus, the service of God and time in Halacha (Half Jubilee of the Mishkan Israel – 5769)
• A compilation of Hanukkah candles (from the desert of Matana – 1996)
• A Gentile who did not know the halakha (Makor Rishon – 5773)
• In response to "a Gentile who did not know the Halacha" (Makor Rishon – 5773)
• Academic Research and the Prohibition of Touching (Makor Rishon – 2016)
• In response to "Academic Research and the Prohibition of Touching" (Makor Rishon – 2016)
• Plagiarism and Intellectual Property (Teachumin – 2005)
• Separation of Siamese twins (Tachumin – 2007)
• Is it permissible to kill a thief (Thuqmin – 2008)?
• Organ donation (Thuqomin – 2019)
• Halacha ruling on the Holocaust
• You have caused a secular person to commit a crime (Zohar – 5766)
• The Secular Man's Mistake – A Reply to a Comment (Zohar – 5766)
• Clarifications regarding offenses committed by secularists – response to comments (Zohar – 2016)
• Platonic Meaning of Emotions in Halacha (Book in Memory of Rabbi Asher Aharon Sonnenschein – "Tazarne Simcha" – 5744)
• The harm of eating citric acid on Passover without knowing it

Talmudic study:

• Meta-Halakhic Meanings of Maimonides' Fourteen Roots (Good Measure) – Issue 1 | Issue 2 | Issue 3 | Issue 4 | Issue 5 | Issue 6 | Issue 7 | Issue 8 | Issue 9 | Issue 10 | Issue 11 | Issue 12 | Issue 13 | Issue 14 | Issue 15 | attache (There is a more recent version of the articles here)
• A database of Midot Tovah articles on the weekly torah in light of the 13 Midot Hadrash (5765 – 5766)
• A database of articles on the principles of halakhic thinking (Good measure 2017)
• On beliefs, their meaning and halakhic status (not yet published – 2016)
• Is there a mitzvah to make Teshuvah? (Derech Chaim – 2009)
• Repentance, Atonement, and Punishment (Book of Yossi Laor – 1970)
• Two Ways of Answering (Unpublished – 1997)
• Criminality and wickedness – The Matot affair (Beer – 2013)
• The meaning of blowing the shofar (Book of Rabbi Kraus – 1970)
• A year on which it is written to delay (Ma'alin Bekodesh – 5767)
• The Two Goats on Yom Kippur (Unpublished – 1997)
• What is the 'scripture of the Scripture'? (Book of Ibn Shloima and Tzedek – 5771)
• The Equal Side and Conceptual Construction (Mishram – 2004)
• The essence of theoretical 'investigations' (Mishram - 2005)
• Migo and legal arguments (5768)
• The Essence of a Guilty Sacrifice (Majl – 5767)
• What is money? (Unpublished – 2009)
• Naturalization in the middle of the ninth month (HaMa'ayan – 5773)
• On the Sacred and the Secular in Chanukah and in General (Nero Yair – 2012)
• Rules for the Share of Mitzvot (Sefer Rambam – Jubilee of Rabbi Rabinowitz – 2012)
• A crime for its own sake (Dacha – 2016)
• The Duty of the Individual in a Public Position (Teaching 3 – 2008)
• Between Greece and Israel – Aspects in Torah Study (From the Desert of Matana – 1999)
• Tongue-tied in the secondary (from the desert of Matana – 2000)
• On the Answer – Speech and Deed (Mambhar Matana – 2002)
• Sermon and Prophecy (From the Book of Matana – 5764)
• What is 'Chalot': Study, Logic, and Devotion (Tzohar – 2009)
• What is 'Chalot': A response to the comments (Zohar – 2009)
• 'Hafza' of Torah – Response to Rabbi Yehuda Rak's Article (Tzohar – 2003)
• The Logical Status of the Ways of Sermon (Tzohar – 5763)
• Property Laws in the Kovno Ghetto (Zohar – 5765)
• Mitzvah, Sabra, and the Will of God (Zohar – Elul 5767)
• Four Guardians and Their Three Laws (Unpublished – 2006)
• Between Research and 'Review': Hermeneutics of Canonical Texts (Academics – 2000)
• Gates of Conversion: On Violence and Good Intentions (Academ – 2011)
• A Platonic View of Existence – The Talmudic System of Thought and the Relationship Between the Mishnah and the Gemara (Akademut – 5773)
• Opening lesson for the Sukkah: Kosher Haftsa and Kosher Ma'ase (Daily Daf Yomi Book – Lod – 2014)
• Regarding the obligation to pay for damaged property
• The logical dimensions of the sermon as the foundation stones for non-deductive inferences – Part 1 | Part II
• Regarding market regulation
• Are Kiddushin an application of ownership? – Following the article by Rivka Lubitz (Akademut – 2019)
• Maimonides's Theory of Punishment (Seminar work with the assistance of Rabbi Michael Avraham)
• The "easy matter" as a syllogism – an arithmetic model
• Regarding the ruling of Risha regarding the prohibitions of the rabbis in the case of Daner Sha'ag Tabla (Shabbat 122:)
• "He will repay the wicked according to his wickedness," right? - Studies in the Meaning of Punishments

Publicistics:

• Should I go vote in the elections? (Point – 2019)
• Is there any point in voting in the elections – on rationalism, anarchism and the categorical imperative (Mosaic – 2015)
• Beyond Fundamentalism and Skepticism (Mosaic – 2015)
• On Mathematics, Democracy, and Trojan Horses (Mosaic – 2015)
• On the anti-racist madness that is sweeping us (Mosque – 5775)
• On the 'seam line' between Haredi and religious Zionism (Kipa website – 2007)
• Rabbi Michael Avraham to Moti Yogev: Your rabbis are not my rabbis. I feel betrayed (Kippa website – 2014)
• Myth and Historical Truth (Tzohar – 2012)
• Conversion and Islamic Exile and the Separation of Religion and State (Unpublished – 2009)
• What would I change in the education system? (Besheva – 2008)
• Reflections on the Conversion Controversy (Makor Rishon – 2008)
• On discrimination and racism against Haredim (Makor Rishon – 2010)
• The Chief Rabbinate – The Dream and Its Break (Makor Rishon – 2013)
• The Haredi demonstration and the elections for the rabbinate (Makor Rishon – 2014)
• In response to the Haredi demonstration and the elections for the rabbinate (Makor Rishon – 2014)
• Letter to Yedioth Ahronoth following the ban on renting apartments to non-Jews (Yedioth Ahronoth – 2010)
• God's work on the Internet – between the Enlightenment period and the Internet (and this for Judah – 5773)
• The Enemies of Reason (unpublished – 2008)
• Exclusion that creates mediocrity (Makor Rishon Supplement – 2017)
• In response to the exclusion that creates mediocrity (Makor Rishon Supplement – 2017)
• A response article to "Towards an Ultra-Orthodox Middle Class" (needs review – 2017)
• A Look at Torah Study for Women and Female Scholars (Asif – 2019)
• Deceiving Ourselves: Is Religious Society Raising Its Children in a Bubble? (Walla Yehuda – 2019)
• So that Judaism does not disappear: The time has come for halakhic change (YNET – 2020)
• The bourgeoisie will change Harediism – a response article to “Towards an Ultra-Orthodox Middle Class” (The magazine "Needs to Read")
• Torah with Derech Eretz – a new model for the high school yeshiva
• What could be more murderous than religious fanaticism?
• The dismissal of the Ombudsman: This is what happens when both political camps look at the glass half empty (Makor Rishon – 2025)
• Between Liberty and Freedom – and the Connection to the Conscription Law
• We lost the battle in academia back in elementary school.

Israeli thought:

• "Suddenly a person wakes up in the morning and feels that he is a people, and begins to walk" – on Jewish identity in our time and in general (Akademut – 2014)
• 'The Third Way' or: On 'Religious Zionism' without a hyphen (Tzohar – 5765)
• The meaning of religious Zionism today (Mosaic – 2015)
• On the New "Sanhedrin" (Nokuda – 2005)
• Does Zionism have a role? (Point – 2017)
• Jewish and Democratic – On Nationhood and Religion, Conversion and the Separation of Religion and State (Pisas – 2015)
• Who is a Jew and what is Judaism – an introduction to the issue of conversion (Pisas – 2015)
• What is a “messianic movement”? Application to the case of Zionism (Work by Bruria Avraham with the assistance of Rabbi Michael Avraham)
• To Turn and See: On Two Perceptions of Reality
• On Halacha and Theology

The eulogies:

• After the Bed of Maran Rabbi Shach (from Matana Desert – 2001)
• Behind the Bed of the Murdered in the Land of Israel (unpublished – 2011)
• After the bed of Rabbi Yehoshua Yagel (from Petah Tikva local)

About this week's events:

• Link to a folder of articles on this week's episodes (two series)
• What about Moses and Kant's philosophy – Parashat Ki Tisha
• "The Word of the One Who Taught": Between Sermon and Interpretation – Parashat Kedoshim
• The relationship between the Temple and sacrifices – Parashat Teruma
• On the Reasons for the Mitzvot – Parashat HaKat
• The War of Desire: Another Look at the Struggle Between Jacob and Esau – Parashat Toldot
• Between Angels and Humans: On the Moral Level We Must Live On – Parashat Beshalach
• A Look at the Prohibition of Incitement – Parashat Ra'eh
• Torah Blessing – Parshat HaAzinu
• The Meaning of a Commandment – The Story of Noah
• Is repentance a mitzvah – Shabbat Shuva?
• Noah's Parable – A Righteous Man 'In His Generations': Absolute Judgment and Relative Judgment
• Parashat Ki Tetzeh (5755) – Granting a Divorce – Anatomy of a “Process”
• Deuteronomy – “You shall not dwell with anyone”: The status of the individual within the collective
• Parashat Vaihi – On mistakes made in the name of the Torah
• Parashat Vaykhel – A mundane matter about the purity of the Holy One.

Misc.:

• Humility and Modesty (Sefer Katnot Or – 2009)
• Tu B'Shvat and a Poem (Unpublished – 2001)
• Purim Clowning - Delivering Food to Jericho (Unpublished – 2001)
• On Two Figures of a Sage (Sefer HaRav – 2011)
• The Price of Tolerance (Opinions – 2013)
• Boundaries between sacred and secular literature in the library (Beer – 2010)
• Researcher and Ally – On the Question of the Existence of the Dilemma (Unpublished – 2000)
• Current aspects of the problem of the individual and the whole, and the 'defensive wall' dilemma (Tzohar – 2013)
• Shorts
• On the appropriate method in the study of Israeli thought and the humanities
• A booklet that adds to the chaos (from the desert of Matana – 1997)
• Ballad for an Abandoned Baby and the Difficulties of Korach (Midar Matana – 1998)
• The Essence of Memory in the Bible and in General (From the Gift of the Desert – 1998)
• Pardes: Secret People and Revealed People (From the Desert of Matana – 1999)
• A nice piece of paper for P. Vaira from Mohari Eybshitz (from Matanah Desert – 5761)
• One crucial day in the succession of the Oral Torah (from the Book of Matanah – 5762)
• Lag BaOmer Requirement – Parallel Interpretation Levels (From the Book of Matana – 5762)
• Darkness and Blindness – The Personal and the General in Torah Study (Mamdbar Matana – 2003)
• The essence of Jacob's will to his sons (from the Book of Matanah - 5764)
• On the Commandments and What is Beyond Them (Alon Beer – 2004)
• Letter to the Yeshiva – Criticism of Harediism (5766)
• Cupid and other animals: Why get married?
• Fates – A Look at Randomness and Providence / Parashat Pinchas
• A story about a king's son who fell into madness
• On the times of judgment and the times of mercy