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Orthodox Views on Halakhah. Views on Halakhah. Halakhah in Jewish Daily Life and Practice. Jewish Life.

Seeking guidance from the Jewish legal tradition, without a belief in its binding nature—especially in light of contemporary moral sensitivies.

The Jewish experience between 1914 and 1948 begins and ends with war. In 1914, WWI began, a watershed in both European and Jewish history, as it marked the end of four great empires: the Tsarist, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, and German Reich.

Why don't we say a blessing before we do a good deed?

We are often blind to the dimension that lacks physical substance, and that can lead to enslavement to things.

The biblical text and the Rabbinic tradition provide the universal search for an ethical life with passion and some unique concepts.

There are a number of reasons given to obey God's laws.

On history, spirituality, obligation, and standing at Sinai.

Jewish philosophers since ancient times have explained the system of mitzvot, and individual commandments, in terms that made sense to their contemporaries.

The Sages proposed additional reasons to obey the mitzvot beyond those offered by the Bible.