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Ethan Tucker's Halakhic Essays
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Why Does Our Tefillah Change on December 4th (or 5th)?
Birkat Ha-Shanim

1 Document file

Halakhah and Values
Parashat Ha'azinu

1 Audio file

Halakhah and Community
Parashat VeZot HaBerakhah

1 Audio file

Halakhah and Values
Parashat Ha'azinu

1 Audio file

Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?
Parashat VaYelekh

2 Audio files

Sanctity of Space, Part 2
Parashat Nitzavim

1 Audio file

Sanctity of Space, Part 1
Parashat Ki Tavo

1 Audio file

Moral Revolution or Complex Application?
Parashat Ki Teitztei

1 Audio file

What is a Jew? Part 7
Parashat Shoftim

1 Audio file

What is a Jew? Part 6
Parashat Re'eih

1 Audio file

What is a Jew? Part 5
Parashat Eikev

1 Audio file

Ethical Norms as the Foundation of Torah
Parashat VaEtchanan

1 Audio file

Gender and Judging
Parashat Devarim

1 Audio file

Between Real and Ideal
Parashat Mattot-Mas'ei

1 Audio file

Equality Without Adjuncts?
Parashat Pinchas

1 Audio file

Jews, Gentiles, Impurity, and Humanity, Part 2
Parashat Balak

1 Audio file

Jews, Gentiles, Impurity, and Humanity, Part 1
Parashat Chukkat

1 Audio file

When Love Meets Condescension, Part 2
Parashat Korach

1 Audio file

When Love Meets Condescension, Part 1
Parashat Shelach

1 Audio file

Musical Instruments on Shabbat and Yom Tov
Parashat BeHa'alotekha

1 Audio file

Gender and the Priestly Blessing
Parashat Naso

1 Audio file

Gender and the Kehunah
Parashat BeMidbar

1 Audio file

Is Judaism a Team or Individual Sport? Part 2
Parashat Bechukotai

1 Audio file

Is Judaism a Team or Individual Sport? Part 1
Parashat Behar

1 Audio file

Kohanim and Death
Parashat Emor

1 Audio file

Niddah, Part 4
Parashat Kedoshim

1 Audio file

Niddah, Part 3
Parashat Acharei Mot

1 Audio file

Niddah, Part 2
Parashat Metzora

1 Audio file

Niddah, Part 1
Parashat Tazria

1 Audio file

Pluralism, Integrity, and Community, Part 3
Parashat Shemini

1 Audio file

Pluralism, Integrity, and Community, Part 2
Parashat Tzav

1 Audio file

Pluralism, Integrity, and Community, Part 1
Parashat VaYikra

1 Audio file

Gentiles, Jews, and Shabbat, Part 2
Parashat Pekudei

1 Audio file

Gentiles, Jews, and Shabbat, Part 1
Parashat VaYakhel

1 Audio file

Benefiting from Others' Violations of Shabbat
Parashat Ki Tissa

1 Audio file

Witnessing and Communal Boundaries, Part 3
Parashat Tetzaveh

1 Audio file

Witnessing and Communal Boundaries, Part 2
Parashat Terumah

1 Audio file

Witnessing and Communal Boundaries, Part 1
Parashat Mishpatim

1 Audio file

Shamor and Zakhor
Parashat Yitro

2 Audio files

Can't Touch This
Parashat BeShallach

2 Audio files

Commemoration or Reenactment?
Parashat Bo

1 Audio file

Matrilineality and Patrilineality in Jewish Law and Community, Part 3
Parashat Va'Era

1 Audio file

Matrilineality and Patrilineality in Jewish Law and Community, Part 2
Parashat Shemot

1 Audio file

Uniformity and Diversity: Left-handedness and Halakhah
Parashat VaYechi

1 Audio file

Matrilineality and Patrilineality in Jewish Law and Community, Part 1
Parashat VaYigash

1 Audio file

When Mitzvot Get in the Way of Political Power
Parashat Mikeitz

1 Audio file

What is a Jew? Part 4
Parashat VaYeishev

1 Audio file

What is a Jew? Part 3
Parashat VaYishlach

1 Audio file

What is a Jew? Part 2
Parashat VaYeitzei

1 Audio file

What is a Jew? Part 1
Parashat Toldot

1 Audio file

Maintaining Jewish Distinctiveness: The Case of Gentile Foods
Parashat Chayyei Sarah

1 Audio file

Redeeming the Akeidah, Halakhah and Ourselves
Parashat VaYera

1 Audio file

Liturgical Change and Its Limits
Parashat Lekh Lekha

1 Audio file

Praying in Languages Other Than Hebrew
Parashat Noach

1 Audio file

Category Shifts in Jewish Law and Practice
Parashat Bereishit

1 Audio file

Immersion, Presence, and Gender
A Tale of Female Conversion

1 Audio file
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Curated by: Ethan Tucker

Ethan Tucker this year has shared a weekly essay exploring various topics in Jewish law and values. These essays jump off the weekly Torah reading and tackle a range of issues in areas such as gender, sexuality, Jewish identity, food practices, and Shabbat in the modern world. Much of this writing will be a distillation of thinking and teaching he has done over the past decade. These essays are part of the expanding work of Mechon Hadar's Center for Jewish Law and Values.

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Want to catch up on the essays on a previous parashah? The complete archive—to listen to and to read—is to the left of this panel.

Archive

Browse Mechon Hadar's weekly divrei Torah archive by parashah:

Bereishit Shemot VaYikra
Noah Va'Era Tzav
Lekh Lekha Bo Shemini
VaYera BeShallah Tazria
Hayyei Sarah Yitro Metzora
Toldot Mishpatim Tazria-Metzora
VaYeitzei Terumah Acharei Mot
VaYishlah Tetzaveh Kedoshim
VaYeshev Ki Tissa Acharei Mot-Kedoshim
Miketz VaYak'hel Emor
VaYigash Pekudei BeHar
VaYehi VaYak'hel-Pekudei BeChukotai
    BeHar-BeChukotai

 

BeMidbar Devarim
Naso Va'Ethanan
BeHa'alotekha Eikev
Shelah Re'eih
Korah Shoftim
Hukkat Ki Teitzei
Balak Ki Tavo
Hukkat-Balak Nitzavim
Pinhas VaYelekh
Matot Nitzavim-VaYelekh
Mas'ei Ha'azinu
Matot-Mas'ei V'Zot HaBerakhah
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