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EQUALITY
LOST: Essays in Torah Commentary, Halacha and Jewish Thought
Author:
Rabbi Yehuda Henkin
In Equality Lost, Rabbi Yehuda Henkin teaches us how
to extract the peshat in the Torah and demonstrates how to
interpret Halacha in regard to women in the age of feminism, the
conversion to Judaism of children in non-observant homes, and the
killing of captured terrorists. Readers will immediately recognize
the direct, sensible, and authentically Jewish evaluations of
current phenomena such as the glatt kosher craze. In
addition, he gives us fresh and unsettling insights into the
reasons for the destruction of the Second Temple, the lessons to
be learned therefrom, and the ramifications of these lessons for
the State of Israel.
Rabbi Yehuda Henkin is the author of three volumes of
halachic questions and answers Bnei Banim, the Torah
Commentary Chibah Yeteirah, and more than a hundred
articles in periodicals and scholarly journals. Born in the United
States in 1945, he studied for six years with his grandfather, the
famous posek Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, of blessed memory,
from whom he received rabbinical semichah. He is also a
graduate of Columbia University. Following his Aliya to
Israel in 1972, Rabbi Henkin served as the Rabbi of the Beit Shean
valley prior to moving to Jerusalem. His wife, Chana Henkin, is
founder and head of the Nishmat Institute for Advanced Jewish
Studies for Women. They have six children.
Hardcover, 190 Pages
ISBN: 965-7108-01-2
Publication: 1999
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