by Rabbi Joshua Maroof | Sep 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Open Orthodox movement is taking leave of any semblance of halakhic legitimacy at an alarming pace. Debating the acceptability of reciting a blessing ordained by the Sages of the Talmud was merely a strategy for testing the proverbial waters, an attempt to see...
by Rabbi Joshua Maroof | Aug 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
In a post earlier this week, I took issue with an author on the “Morethodoxy” website, Open Orthodox Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky. R’ Kanefsky has been promoting the view that the blessing שלא עשני אשה , despite its basis in the Talmud and its unanimous...
by Rabbi Joshua Maroof | Aug 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
Cross-Currents has agreed to edit the post that gratuitously linked me to Open Orthodox ideology and practices. Many thanks to the authors of Cross-Currents for making what I believe to be the right decision in this matter.
by Rabbi Joshua Maroof | Aug 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
Recently, a blog post published by Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky concluded that we should no longer recite the blessing שלא עשני אשה and that, in fact, to do so constitutes a חילול השם. The author adduces several questionable sources to support his proposal and which can...
by Rabbi Joshua Maroof | Jul 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Rambam, following the Talmud, describes five tragedies that occurred on the Seventeenth of Tammuz: “Five events occurred on the Seventeenth of Tammuz: The tablets containing the “Ten Commandments” were shattered; the daily sacrifice in the First...
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