A quick perusal of a page of the Talmud in the original form, the Vilna Shaas, shows multiple commentators surrounding the center text. The center text is the Mishneh and the Gemara. On the one side you have Rashi and on the other side you have Tosafot. You also have Mesorat HaShas, Ein Mishpat, Ner Mitzvah and Rabeinu Chananel. If you check the front page of the Shas, […]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibility Corporate Social Responsibility has become a major factor in the running of large corporations. Just as an individual should not Halachically engage in businesses where the profit is derived from illicit behaviour (such as running a house of prostitution or kidnapping innocent young girls for this purpose), so has the idea been extended to Corporations. Whatever the current efficacy of this movement, it is clearly a step […]
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Menachem Elon in Mishpat Ivri: “What is the explanation for the astonishing fact that in the study of a legal system extending over 3000 years, most attention has been centered on only slightly more than the first half of this period, and the last 1300 years have been investigated only in a cursory manner? There is even more reason for wonder if we consider that although the Biblical […]
משנה מסכת עדויות פרק ב משנה ט [ט] הוא היה אומר האב זוכה לבן בנוי ובכח ובעושר ובחכמה ובשנים ובמספר הדורות לפניו והוא הקץ שנאמר (ישעיה מ”א) קורא הדורות מראש אף על פי שנאמר (בראשית ט”ו) ועבדום וענו אותם ארבע מאות שנה ונאמר (שם /בראשית ט”ו/) ודור רביעי ישובו הנה: My interpretation of HaDorot Lefanav follows that of Rabbi Joseph B Soloveitchik,z’l, as found in: Abraham Besdin: […]
There is a transition from intuition to Halacha in Jewish thought. In the Hakdama to Mitzvat HaBayit by Rabbi Yosef Epstein ztz’l, section two, he outlines in detail the transition from the Intellect and Intuition of the Avot to the requirement to observe the Mitzvot after Kabbalat HaTorah, (the formal acceptance of the Torah by the Jewish People). Rabbi Epstein observes that human intellect is an intermediary between […]
“We have seen that mathematical propositions which cannot be established by formal deduction from a given set of axioms may, nevertheless, be established by “informal” meta-mathematical reasoning. It would be irresponsible to claim that these formally indemonstrable truths established by meta-mathematical arguments are based on nothing better than bare appeals to intuition.” (Ernest Nagel, Godel’s Proof, p. 112) David Zviel: Godel actually constructs formal statements which must […]
הקדמה אגרות משה דכיון שיכולין לפרש בתורה כב”ש וכב”ה הרי נמצא שנאמר כתרוייהו כל זמן שלא נתבטלו דעת אחד ברבים החולקים. וזהו פירוש מי מעקב שמשה שאל למה עושה הקב”ה האותיות למלכים, שיעשו כפי משמעות החכמים בלשון הכתוב והמסור, דמי מעקב שתכתוב באופן שלא יהיה אפשר לפרש רק דרך אחד ככוונתך האמתית ולמה נתת כח מלוכה להאותיות שימצא שלפעמים יעשו שלא ככוונתך. והשיב הקב”ה משום שע”י זה […]
INTUITION, ETHICAL REASONING AND TORAH LAW, PDF (click here) FROM INTUITION TO HAR SINAI Rabbi Yosef Dovid Epstein: Hakdama to Mitzvat HaBayit: “If the Torah would not have been given, Man would have discovered the Parsha on Proper Conduct himself, through his own intellect. The Avot learned Torah from their own internal mental processes. They recognized obligations by themselves. From their great wisdom they came to the […]
The Tempting of America by Robert H. Bork “In the past few decades American institutions have struggled with the temptations of politics. Professions and academic disciplines that once possessed a life and structure of their own have steadily succumbed, in some cases almost entirely, to the belief that nothing matters beyond politically desirable results, however achieved. In this quest, politics invariably tries to dominate another discipline, to capture […]
