Interesting exchange over at the Da'as Torah Blog discussing a teshuva of Rav Moshe on the views cited in a sefer on Chumash attributed to Rav Yehuda Hachasid: Dov said... "Your assertion needs to be documented" Prof. Marc Shapiro has written extensively on this topic in several postings on the Sefo...

After reading R' Mosheh Lichtenstein's essay printed in the Orthodox Forum on "The Beginning of Wisdom and the End of Tanakh Study", I could help but continue to nod in vehement approval to 90% of what he writes. He describes the corrosive attitudes of analyzing Tanach academically-- as one would ap...

Sorry for the long stretch of time without blogging. I have a lot of posts to catch up on. Here is a short back-and-forth about the pros and cons about the two ways of evaluating the level of expertise of scholars in their respective worlds.Posted for archive purposes and background for future posts...