25 Sep IS YONAH REALLY ABOUT TESHUVAH?
I. Teshuvah and Nineveh C o n v e n t i o n a l wisdom has it that the book of Yonah is about the power of teshuvah, repentance. But if that is the case, why...
16 Sep BRUSHING TEETH ON SHABBOS & YOM TOV
As we approach a string of three three-day yamim tovim, people are thinking about their hygiene and comfort, including showering and brushing teeth. I will discuss here the longstanding debate about the permissibility of brushing teeth on Shabbos and...
16 Sep TRAPPED BY THE SERMON
Many rabbis use the High Holiday sermons as an opportunity to showcase their talents and to showcase crucial ideas and themes. Considering the large crowd, rabbis may spend months preparing just the right combination of information and inspiration. In other...
09 Sep AI AND TESHUVAH
This year, many people are going to try to learn lessons about how to do teshuvah from artificial intelligence (AI). I am going to go in the other direction and discuss how AI shows the wrong way to...
02 Sep AI, UNEMPLOYMENT AND MASHIACH
I. AI and Unemployment Predictions vary widely about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on employment. All agree that AI will replace some jobs, particularly those open to the automation of processes. The critical question is whether AI will become a...
26 Aug AI AND YESHIVA SECULAR EDUCATION
I. The Cost of Secular Education The high cost of yeshiva tuition remains a significant challenge to many in the community. Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises a potential solution: it can reduce costs while simultaneously improving the education. Personalized instruction...
19 Aug AI PERSONALITY AND HALACHIC ETHICS
OpenAI recently released ChatGPT-5, which faced a number of public challenges. One of its features is that users can now choose from five preset Artificial Intelligence (AI) “personalities.” The list of personalities includes cheerful and adaptive; thoughtful and supportive; exploratory...
10 Aug TALMUD TORAH IN THE AGE OF AI
I. AI and Transformation Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world and already beginning to transform the workplace, a process that is widely expected to be dramatic. Will Torah study face the same fate? Some anticipate that AI, once it...
05 Aug CAN AI WRITE A SEFER?
I. AI Authorship Is it permissible to study Torah from a sefer, a text of Torah scholarship, written by artificial intelligence (AI)? There are different ways an AI could author a sefer. For our purposes, we can divide...
29 Jul CAN AI REBUILD THE BEIS HA-MIKDASH?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing how we approach complex problems across a wide range of fields. From diagnosing rare diseases to reconstructing lost languages, AI has proven itself capable of analyzing vast amounts of data, detecting patterns and offering...