Tzvi Sinensky

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In 1973, Rabbi Lamm nearly became president of Bar-Ilan University. He even received a contract under which he was set to begin his tenure in July of that year. Can you guess what his annual salary was supposed to be?

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I love receiving new books I edited 🙂

The book exemplifies a certain kind of Torah Umadda - academically rooted and highly rigorous, but always with an eye toward the larger meaning and significance of the sugya. It’s a combination that is both rare and invaluable.

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Lamm Legacy audio is now live!

You can now find Lamm Legacy wherever you get your podcasts. Links in the comments.

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The midwives refuse to comply quietly, and the situation escalates. Is exposure worth the danger – or does silence only postpone a reckoning that will come anyway?

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The Day the Eruv Was Banned

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For a full year after the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, Rabbi Norman Lamm refrained from criticizing Israel from the pulpit. Exactly one year later, on Yom Kippur, he spoke out again. What might he have done after October 7 – or, for that matter, today?

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What happens when religious extremism enters politics?

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Letter to R. Lamm in 1953. Nothing new under the sun…

“Your accursed tribe have a monopoly on traitorism, and the day is fast approaching when the American people as every other nation on earth has done will drive you out… How much more can Americans stand? Hitler was right!”

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It’s 2025, but sometimes I wonder whether we’ve learned the lessons of 1973…

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My kids tease me for listening to the same song on repeat. Lately, it’s Ishay Ribo’s mikshah achat zahav – not a Chanukah song, but a menorah song. After yesterday’s attack in Sydney, it felt different.
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Tough subject – but Rabbi Lamm would have reminded me not to shy away from tackling the hard ones.

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@Exfallsburg @LammLegacy Yes

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R. Idan Ben-Ephraim’s final move is bold and stunningly consequential. Even as he preserves a strict ontological line between the sexes, he offers sweeping, inclusive leniencies for transgender, post-operative individuals in practice.
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@Adderabbi Definitely an anti-Roman polemic/Jewish pride issue. The latter ties in to the Rebbe’s larger project.

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When R. Idan Ben Ephraim invokes a position of the Vilna Gaon as an additional consideration to rule STRINGENTLY, you know where he wants to land...
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