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Rabbi Hyim Shafner

The Stranger Within Your Gates - by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Maharat: A new model of leadership by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Learning from Hillel and Shami

The Passover Seder: When we all must become children

The Holy Society -by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Thoughts about death and living life -by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

When not to act piously –by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

A powerful article on recent Rabbinical advocacy of reparative therapy for gay orthodox Jews

What’s in a blessing

Fear and Loathing in Beit Shemesh

A Hanukkah irony

Were our ancestors perfect?

Some further thoughts and an apology about child conversion- Rabbi Hyim Shafner

The conversion of minors –by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Purim vs. Halloween

Rosh Hashanah: A day of insight not atonement

A religious dilemma

A hesped (eulogy) for my mother: Torah and art a synthesis of worlds

Physical beauty transformed: From Anthony Weiner to Sara of the Bible

Reflections on our Community Shavuot Tikun and Jewish Unity -by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Seeing the sincerity in those with whom we disagree

Our neighbors: Jeffrey Dahmer and Osama bin Laden –by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Avoiding the comforts of extremism

The French Emperor’s Burka: When Liberalism Leads to Close-Mindedness -by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Heaven and Heck

Is God in the Tsunami? -By Rabbi Hyim Shafner

The Pope’s Exoneration of the Jews

On Modesty and Misogyny

The 10th Plague and the Sanctification of the First Born –By Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Were our Avot and Imahot (ancestors) perfect?  Did they keep the whole Torah? –By Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Rediscovering Prayer –by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Does Orthodoxy Change? -by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Did Abraham Fail his Final Test?  By Rabbi Hyim Shafner

The Theological Implications of Brussel Sprouts –By Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Are We Torah True? -By Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Halacha as Business-My Take on the Rotem Bill-By Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Do Zealots make Good Jewish Leaders?  -by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Rabbi Shafner’s Series of On-Location Video Divrey Torah from Israel

Morethodoxy will be Regularly Back Online in About Two Weeks

What is the Purpose of Zionism, Part 2- By Rabbi Hyim Shafner

What is the Purpose of Zionism? –By Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Why We Need a Reversion of Conversion-By Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Religious Zionism, Creativity, and the Future of the Jewish People-by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Sleeping Over in the West Bank -By Rabbi Hyim Shafner

More on learning with Rav Samet and the Yeshivah Gedolah of Lod

More on Rav Samet’s Yeshivah in Lod and the Creativity of Talmud Study –by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

The Importance and Value of Creativity in Talmud Study –by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Mount Morayah: Fulcrum of Exile and Redemption, Sacrifice and Reprieve; other thoughts on unity

Unwittingly Desecrating G-d’s Name by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Making Sure Judaism is Fair

Defining Morethodoxy (a repost of an earlier Morethodoxy essay)

What does it take to be a Jewish leader?

Abraham the Seeker -by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Parshat Lekh Lekhah: The Covenant and the Jewish People -A Guest Post by Eugene Korn

Tweaking the Jewish Image of Relationships

Flying On An Airplane – Rabbi Barry Gelman

Science and Creationism: is there a conflict?

A great answer to a famous Sukkot question

Why are we so childish when it comes to Yom Kippur?

For Crying out Loud!

The Highest and the Lowest –By Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Tishuvah-Return

Prostitutes, Rabbis and Teshuvah (Return) -By Rabbi Hyim Shafner

Hearing the Divine –By Rabbi Hyim Shafner

“We Men Are Weak”, by Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky

Torah Alone does not a Mench Make –By Rabbi Hyim Shafner

The Voice of Women

Bridging Religious and Secular Jewish Life in Israel -by Rabbi Hyim Shafner

A Profound Disagreement on How to Live Jewish Lives –By Rabbi Hyim Shafner

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