On Neusner’s Theology of Halakhah

Halakhah and philosophical approaches to abortion.

For me, as for most of the readers of TRADITION, abortion on . demand is prohibited because halakhah says so; and that's that.. Thus a philosophical argument on abortion, as presented by Dr. Brody, * Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Rice University, is primarily of philosophical interest and without practical implications for Our own lives. In fact, however~. this is not so. Should w...

Jewish Medical Ethics and halakhah.

Vaccination in Halakhah and in Practice in the Orthodox Jewish Community

________________________________________________________ Asher Bush, a graduate of Yeshiva University and RIETS, is the rav of Congregation Ahavas Yisrael in Wesley Hills, NY, and is currently the chairman of the Rabbinical Council of America’s Vaad Halacha. He has authored over fifty articles on various halakhic topics including medical issues, and his Sho’el b-Shlomo responsa address a range ...

Comparative Study of Aquinas and Kant‘s Narration of Ethics and Theology

Since Kant is a son of his time, his thought is originally rooted in the Enlightenment. The distinction between theoretical and practical reason, formal and material conscientiousness, authentic and doctrinal theodicy, sincerity and falsehood, and finally, historical and moral faith religion, are implications of the court held by Kant for metaphysics. Meanwhile, Kantian distinction between deis...

KIERKEGAARD AND THE ASH‘ARITES ON REASON AND THEOLOGY

Neither the Ash‘arites nor Kierkegaard’s systems of theology are anti-rational, for Kierkegaard regards the contradiction present in the object of faith as absolute rather than logical, suggesting thereby the existential dialectics for understanding this contradiction instead of resolving it. The Ash‘arites also hold that one can understand the existence of God through absolute reason, or reaso...