Given 3/3/2025Sponsored at YI by the Fistel family in memory of Eddie, lifelong learner and teacher
Given 3/3/2025Sponsored at YI by the Fistel family in memory of Eddie, lifelong learner and teacher
Feb 10 2025Learning at YI this week sponsored by the Cheses family in memory of their grandfather–(Moshe ben Yehoshua) Morris Sulman’s upcoming yahrzeit.
Tannaim dispute whether kinui sotah is a mitzvah or reshut. The stamma d'gemara assumes that kinui sotah is either lekhatchilah or assur. Amoraim dispute whether the husband who is mekanei his wife is under the sway of a ruach taharah or rather a ruach tum'ah. How can these positions best be aligned, reconciled, and/or synthesized? How do they relate to rishonim's statements about the purpose of the institution?
Compares Rav Moshe's position to those of Rav Meir Twersky regarding Sefer HaChinnukh and Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik regarding Rambam
Igrot Mosheh Yoreh Deah 1:214