Taking Responsibility for Torah

Intended to be "Should the Sanhedrin Be Elected?", but many productive digressions later, we didn't quite get there. Third in the series on Jewish political theory. July 29 2026 at YI Sharon

The right to stay home?

July 28 at SBM 2026

Part 3 of the American History via Igrot Mosheh series

Discusses Rabbi Norman Lamm's argument that Halakhah recognizes a general right to privacy

Discusses Rav Moshe's application of halakhic competition law to synagogues in Brooklyn. Part 2 of the American History via Igrot Moshe series

When Technicalities Prevent the Conversion of a Worthy Candidate

Is there a right to convert?

With new mics to better record converstions in shiur! The Maseit Binyamin on aliyot for the blind, as a first discussion of whether there can be a right to religious experience

Rav Zevin vs. Rav Yisraeli on whether human beings own their bodies - does that map onto rights vs. duties discourse, with Rav Zevin recognizing rights only as the space created by duties, and Rav Yisraeli acknowledging rights as having independent existence?