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God, Consciousness and the Problem of Anthropopathism: Theological Musings of...
An old friend of mine was buried last week. I haven’t seen him for a few years and did not call to say goodbye. I had heard he was sick but didn’t think he was going to die; pneumonia doesn’t generally...
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Women’s Participation in Ritual: Time for a Paradigm Shift – by Rabbi Zev Farber
Today, the baseline in any Orthodox community is that women do not participate in public ritual at all. In the average Orthodox synagogue, there is not one thing that women do which is part of...
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Partnership Minyanim: A Defense and Encomium – by Rabbi Zev Farber
Partnership minyanim such as Shira Hadasha in Jerusalem and Darkhei Noam in New York, wherein women lead certain parts of the service, are becoming a significant force in the prayer experience of the...
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Partnership Minyanim: A Follow Up – by Rabbi Zev Farber
In response to my previous post, Rabbi Barry Freundel has written a characteristically thorough critique of my presentation. I am honored. Although Rabbi Freundel and I seem to be reading matters...
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The Torah, TheTorah.com, and the Recent Tumult in Context – by Rabbi Zev Farber
Background I completed two educations as an adult, religious and academic. After spending four years in yeshiva studying gemara and chumash intensely (and teaching chumash and gemara in my early...
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Alternative Berakhot for Women’s Torah Reading – by Rabbi Zev Farber
Many Orthodox synagogues have women’s prayer groups, with one of the main features being the reading of the Torah. The halakhic issues with regard to this practice have been discussed and debated at...
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No Agunah Left Behind: A Proposal to Solve the Agunah Crisis – by Rabbi Zev...
At the recent agunah summit, I submitted an outline for a solution to the agunah/mesurevet gett problem. Having sent this to a number of rabbis and agunah activists, I post here a revised version of...
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Tefillin and Clean Bodies – Part 1: Elisha’s Wings – by Rabbi Zev Farber
See: Tefillin and Clean Bodies – Part 2: Women Wearing Tefillin Preface The debate about women wearing tefillin rages. The issue has many moving parts, some are halakhic, most are sociological. In this...
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Tefillin and Clean Bodies – Part 2: Women Wearing Tefillin – by Rabbi Zev Farber
See: Tefillin and Clean Bodies – Part 1: Elisha’s Wings Women are Exempt from Wearing Tefillin According to the Mishna (Berakhot 3:3), women are exempt from wearing tefillin. Women, slaves and minors...
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Transgender Orthodox Jews
by Rabbi Dr. Zev Farber An analysis of the challenges–both halakhic and social–faced by transgender individuals in the Orthodox Jewish world, with some suggested resolutions. INTRODUCTION – THE...
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