Hakirah: The Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought:

Hakirah: The Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought: (Volume 27)

HÌ£akirah is honored to present lectures given approximately 70 years ago by Ha-Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, ztâ€l on the opening verses of the Torah. In the five lectures presented here as the first of three installments, the Ravâ€™s focus is on the question raised by the Amora Rav YitzhÌ£ak as to why the Torah dwells on the story of creation and what philosophical truths we are to learn from it. Further delving into the Ravâ€™s philosophical works is a review essay on Nietzsche, Soloveitchik and Contemporary Jewish Philosophy. The reviewer argues that â€œR. Soloveitchik took secular philosophy as a foil rather than as a foun-dation for his own hashkafa, which was deeply rooted in Jewish sources.â€While the Ravâ€™s work was often dedicated to harmonizing Torah hashkafa and halakha, in our Jewish Thought section we deal with two other twentieth-century Jewish thinkers who emphasized one above the other and who consequently are considered on the fringes of Orthodoxy. In an â€œIntroduction to Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschelâ€™s Philosophyâ€ we see that for Heschel the values and philosophy of Judaism overshadowed the importance of halakha. On the other hand, in â€œSanctifying Our Choices: The Solution to the Paradox of Orthodoxy,â€ an essay on the thought of Prof. Yeshayahu Leibowitz, we see that his thinking was the reverse, that all emphasis should be placed on halakha.The thought of another famous thinker who dealt with the challenges of modernity is explored in â€œRabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch on Jews in a Non-Jewish World,â€ which features the first English language translation of a book review by Rav Hirsch where he expounds about the appreciation Jews can get about Judaism itself from reading works that deal with Christian life. And in â€œThe Life and Work of Dr. Menachem Mendel Yehudah Leib Sergei: A Torah U-Madda Titan in the Early Twentieth Centuryâ€ we are introduced to and inspired by a unique but overlooked Jewish physician â€œwho combines Torah, fear of G-d, and wisdom in an extraordinary way.â€Several articles deal with censorship. In our Forum section, two scholars debate whether ArtScroll censored Rashi to disguise a non-traditional opinion of his, and present differing views on Rashiâ€™s inter-pretation of the term tikun soferim. In â€œThe Brothers Tugendhold & Jewish Censorship in the Nineteenth Century: Addition and Subtrac-tion in the Warsaw 1853 HÌ£umash,â€ the author examines the motives and guidelines behind Jewish self-censorship a century ago. In â€œThe Ban on R. YehÌ£iel Michal Pines in Jerusalem and his relationship with his brother-in-law, Rabbi David Friedman of Karlin,â€ we read of another type of â€œcensorshipâ€ targeting what the Zealots of Jerusalem considered the intrusion of foreign influences into the Holy City of Jerusalem. In our Minhag section in an article entitled â€œIs it Permissible to turn oneâ€™s back to the Hekhal or Kotel During Qabbalat Shabbat?â€ the author objects to what he considers an errant new custom.A Hebrew article on Halakha looks at the RCAâ€™s prenuptial agreement, calling for its wider acceptance, while an English-language article â€œA Prenuptial Agreement by and for the HÌ£aredi Communityâ€ presents a new such agreement that has haskamot from the HÌ£aredi world.Apropos of the season of Teshuva, a comprehensive article on â€œRehashing The Free Will Questionâ€ examines all the explanations that have been put forth over the generations to deal with this challenging issue. In our Torah and Medicine Section â€œEpigenetics Revolution: The Power to Self-regulate and Control Human Behaviorâ€ issues of halakha and hashkafa are addressed, as the authors use the latest advances in science to propose â€œthat there might be a molecular/cellular understanding, based on epigenetics, of how a lifestyle devoted to doing mitzvot can enhance this capacity to control behavior.â€
Country USA
Manufacturer Hakirah
Binding Paperback
EANs 9781936803163
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Hakirah
Binding	Paperback
EANs	9781936803163
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Hakirah: The Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought: (Volume 27)

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