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Reading Responsa — 124 episodes · page 1 of 2
Property Devaluation (2024-07-03)
Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due (2024-01-03)
Jewish Guilt (2023-08-23)
King's David's Divorces: Devoutness and Devotion, Part 2: Shut. Heichal Yitzhak EH 2:35-36, Shut. Tzitz Eliezer 11:90, 15:57 (2023-11-08)
King David's Divorces: Devoutness and Devotion, Part 1: Shut. Divrei Malkiel 4:156 (2023-11-01)
Mekor Haim (Segalowitz) #29: The Law of Unintended Consequences (2023-12-20)
Shut. mi-Ma'amakim 4:23: Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 (#2) (2023-07-19)
Shut. Rabbi Akiva Yosef (Schlesinger) OH:49: Falsifying Torah (2023-07-12)
The World Gets Flatter and Flatter (2023-07-05)
Culpability and Kapparah; Ones and Atonement (2023-06-21)
Is What's Good For the Ganderling Good For the Gosling? (2023-06-14)
Harm: Halachah Vs. Hippocrates (2023-06-07)
Dvar Shmuel #54, #191: Gifts and Graft (2023-05-31)
Shut. Maharit 2:YD:18: The Dos and Dont's of Dairy Doughs and Donuts (2023-05-24)
Shut. Maharil #134: If It Looks Like A Goose ... (2023-05-17)
Shut. ha-Rashba 1:274, Shut. Tuv Ta'am va-Da'as 1:123: Statistics and Sampling (2023-05-10)
Damon and Pythias: Havalim ba-Ne'imim 3:108 (2023-05-03)
Free At Last? Shut. Yabia Omer 6:OH:41 (2023-04-26)
Kidneys: Coin and Kinyan (2023-04-19)
Stamps, Shtaros, and Seforim (2023-03-29)
When the Bread Of Affliction Is Afflictive (2023-03-22)
Dreaming of Danger and Deliverance (2023-03-15)
Eradicating Thorns From the Vineyard (2023-03-08)
Shut. Dvar Shmuel #193: Purim Plays and Parodies (2023-03-01)
Doing As the Romans Do (Revisited) (2023-02-22)
Provisions For the Distant Way (Charitable Bequests) (2023-02-15)
Shut. Hasam Sofer YD #336: Taphophobia (2023-02-08)
Shut. Zekan Aharon 2:145: Mesirah and Mens Rea (2023-02-01)
Price Protection (2023-01-25)
"He Has Not Assigned Our Portion Like Theirs Nor Our Lot Like All Their Multitudes" (2023-01-18)
Competion-Confining Covenants (2023-01-11)
Imitating Life (2023-01-04)
In Praise of the Quid Pro Quo (2022-12-28)
Gelt, Gifts, and More (2022-12-21)
Spiritual Selfishness: Virtue Or Vice? (2022-12-14)
R. Moshe Stern and Modernity: Microphones, Marriage, and Medical Advice, Part 2 (2022-12-07)
R. Moshe Stern and Modernity: Microphones, Marriage, and Medical Advice (2022-11-30)
Shut. Rivash #15: A Single Woman of Large Fortune (2022-11-23)
Terumas ha-Deshen 1:315, Shut. Tashbatz 1:156: Family Feuds and Criminal Conspiracies (2022-11-16)
Shut. ha-Rashba 1:581: Naming Rights (Publicizing Charitable Donations) (2022-11-09)
Teshuvos Rabbi Eliezer #4: The Rabbi and His Relatives (2022-10-26)
Cholera, Coronary Disease, and Childbirth (2022-09-28)
The Fault Is Not In Our Stars, But In Ourselves: Genetic Screening For Tay-Sachs (2022-09-21)
Serenading Sovereigns, Statthalters and Sifrei Torah, and Sundry Other Scenarios (2022-09-14)
Co-sleeping and Its Discontents, Part 2 (2022-09-07)
Co-sleeping and Its Discontents, Part 1 (2022-08-31)
Shut. Maharsham 2:109, Shut. Yabia Omer 6:EH:14, 8:EH:26: Levirate Marriage in the Modern World (2022-07-27)
The Severed Servant: Severance Pay in Halachah (2022-07-20)
Casts, Cash, and Circumcision (2022-07-13)
Our Perfect Torah and Their Frivolous Speech: Intellectual Property In Halachah and Law (2022-07-06)
Shut. ha-Radvaz: Dogma, Philosophy, Heresy, and Name-Calling (2022-06-29)
Shut. Mahaneh Haim 2:HM:49, Shut. Maharam Schick YD:156: Plagiarism For Publicity and Profit (2020-06-24)
בִּרְצוֹתוֹ אוֹחֵז וּבִרְצוֹתוֹ שִׁלַּח: At Will Employment (2022-06-22)
Remove Thy Way Far From Her: Entering Churches (2022-06-15)
Shut. Bnei Banim 1:30-31, 2:38: Too Much Of A Good Thing (2022-06-08)
Shut. Maharam (Defus Prague) #615: One Man's Meticulousness Is Another Man's Minus (2022-06-01)
Doing As the Romans Do (2022-05-25)
Shut. Torah Lishmah #206,400,401: Waste Not, Want Not (2022-05-18)
Shut. Maharit 1:99,97: A Woman's Right To Choose? (2022-05-11)
Perhaps That Man's Blood Is Redder? Part II: Shut. Hasam Sofer 6:29, Shut. Mekadshei Hashem Sha'ar Mahamadim (2022-05-04)
Perhaps That Man's Blood Is Redder? Part I: Shut. Mahari ibn Lev 2:40, Shut. Noda be-Yehudah 2:YD:74 (2022-04-27)
Vacation Planning (2022-04-20)
Hypnotherapy and Homeopathy (2022-04-13)
Shut. ha-Rambam #293: A Humane and Heartwarming Halachist (2022-04-06)
Shut. Tashbatz 2:111, Beis Meir EH #78, Shut. Meil Tzedakah #15: Damsels In Distress (2022-03-30)
Shut. ha-Rambam #369: Islam and Idolatry (2022-03-23)
Shut. Pnei Moshe 2:15: Daughters' Demands (2022-03-09)
Considering the Custom Of the Qibla (2022-03-02)
Beis Yaakov (Meskin) #49: Virtually Unsinkable (2022-02-15)
Shut. Ein Yitzhak 2:1: The Last Voyage Of the Cimbria (2022-02-09)
Had ve-Halak (2022-01-19)
Shut. Lev Avraham #72: Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 (2022-01-12)
Work-Life Balance (2022-01-05)
Shut. Divrei Malkiel 3:67-68: The Icemaker Makes A Mikvah (2021-12-29)
"Save Unto the L-rd Only": Controversial Customs Involving Animal Slaughter (2021-12-15)
Wine, Women, and Weapons (2021-12-01)
Hashmal and the Hag of the Hashmonaim (2021-11-24)
Talking Turkey (2021-11-17?)
The First Hamburg Temple Dispute: R. Yaakov Lorberbaum of Lissa (2021-11-03?)
Swimming In Sin (2021-07-28)
The Day the Music Died (2021-07-14)
Shut. Shevus Yaakov 3:134-136: Legs, Levirate Marriage, and Leniency (2021-11-03)
Judging Others' Jewishness (2021-10-27)
The Geonim: Collateral Damage (2021-10-20)
Non-Kosher Chicken Soup For the Soul (2021-10-13)
Canaries, Cheats, Competitors, and Casinos (2022-02-02)
Shut. Rema #5-7: A Tale Of A Tinra: Of Physics and Metaphysics (2022-01-26)
Shut. Maharik #3: The Deceased Deadbeat Duke (2021-10-06)
R. Azriel Hildesheimer #180: Nobody Mentions His Name (2021-12-22)
Shut. Hasam Sofer OH:15(2), HM:50: Woolly Ideas About Wool, Calendrical Confusion, and Related Topics (2021-08-25)
Fault and Fiduciaries (2021-12-08)
Shut. Havos Yair #136: The Price Of Justice (2018-10-17)
A Medium, A Measure, A Standard, A Store (2021-08-11)
Conquest, Communism, and Kestenbaum (2021-08-04)
Crime and Punishment II: Shut. Havos Yair #146 - Letting Others Play G-d So We Don't Have To (2020-10-21)
Crime and Punishment I: Shut. Tzemah Tzedek #111 - Money Is No Object (2020-10-14)
Shut. Mahari Ibn Lev, Shut. Mabit 1:237: Pesaro, Il Papa, and Portuguese Conversos - The Ancona Boycott Controversy, Part 2 (2021-07-21)
Shut. Nahalah le-Yehoshua #39: Pesaro, Il Papa, and Portuguese Conversos: The Ancona Boycott Controversy (2021-07-07)
R. Kook and The Great Cow Controversy (2021-06-30)
And His Tender Mercies Are Over All His Works (2021-06-23)