Selichos...A Follow Up - by Boruch Clinton
Last week’s “Why Do We Say Selichos” article inspired significantly more feedback than anything else I’ve written here.| darchecha.substack.com
Last week’s “Why Do We Say Selichos” article inspired significantly more feedback than anything else I’ve written here.| darchecha.substack.com
As many of you have probably noticed, there’s a widespread custom to switch the selichos designated for the fourth day of עשרת ימי תשובה with those printed for the fifth day.| darchecha.substack.com
How a typical Yom Tov in the Thirteenth Century would have included many more hours of free time| darchecha.substack.com
This Substack has been dragging on now for 160 posts over nearly four years.| B'chol D'rachecha
There’s a widespread minhag for people leaving a cemetery to wash their hands using a cup before entering their homes.| B'chol D'rachecha
Shabbos and Yom Tov are, apparently, not appropriate times to daven for our personal needs.| darchecha.substack.com
Do Chazal want us to completely trust all of their derashos?| darchecha.substack.com
One of the major challenges I’ve faced in my attempts to understand the later prophets or books like Iyov (Job) is developing a sense of a sefer’s structure. Translating the contents one chapter at a time is nice but, as a rule, that won’t help resolve even the countless apparent internal contradictions in the text, much less reveal the big lessons the book is trying to teach me. I think you can see me struggling with such big-picture problems in| darchecha.substack.com
The novelist Michael Crichton was supposed to have observed that activists are never useful for more than ten years or so.| B'chol D'rachecha
Do members of a community rich in local social services have the moral right to avoid taxes?| B'chol D'rachecha
We all know the things we can’t do on Tisha B’Av.| darchecha.substack.com
I suppose it might be useful to have an opinion about whether or not the Zohar is an authentic Torah source or whether or not the Ari’s innovations conflict with traditional Torah literature. But even if you prefer to give those debates a miss, we all have to ask ourselves whether engaging with modern kabbala is a| darchecha.substack.com
Just when you thought it was safe to venture out onto the internet again, B’chol D’rachecha goes and adds a brand new media category to its growing portfolio.| B'chol D'rachecha
Why Judaism Needs Independent Publishing Platforms| B'chol D'rachecha
I’m not sure where the idea started, but I’ve heard how the Mishna Berura is somehow the final authority in halacha from more than one talmid chochom.| darchecha.substack.com
This article was shamelessly copied from my Finding Tradition project.| B'chol D'rachecha
For years I’ve struggled to understand why - with two important exceptions - there seem to be no references in Chazal to Rambam’s 13 principles (as principles rather than just ideas).| darchecha.substack.com
A long time back, I wrote about some of the practical limits life places on the mitzva of פקוח נפש.| darchecha.substack.com
According to Rabbi S.R.| darchecha.substack.com
Some days you just can’t open a regular Artscroll siddur without falling down a deep rabbit hole of theological controversy.| darchecha.substack.com
By all accounts, the fourteenth year after Yehoshua led our ancestors across the Jordan into Israel was eventful.| B'chol D'rachecha
A friend of mine decided to get training in the full nikkur process.| B'chol D'rachecha
In the spring of 1914, around 125 Jerusalem Ashkenazi and Sefardi Jews (most of them presumably rabbis) signed a document containing violent curses aimed at unnamed individuals living in Yemen.| darchecha.substack.com
Although I have briefly referenced this article in the past, a recent exposure to the Gemara in question inspired me to reprint the whole thing again here.| darchecha.substack.com
I predict that this post - more than all the others - is going to generate some serious push back.| darchecha.substack.com
