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B’OR HA’TORAH is a peer-reviewed international forum for all Jews who want to understand the relationship of Torah with science, artistic creativity, personal behavior, and social issues. This means understanding how the Torah permeates our everyday life, casting light upon even its most remote corners.
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In volume 21 of B’Or Ha’Torah (5772/2011):
For 2,000 years, scholars did not understand Rabbi’s Nathan’s reasoning in Ketubot, chap. 10, mishnah 4 ruling how an inadequate estate should be divided between the three widows of the same husband. In 1985 Israeli Nobel laureate Robert Aumann and Michael Maschler published a paper using the mathematics of Game Theory to explain the conundrum. In BHT 21, Isaac Elishakoff shows that the reasoning is much more straightforward when we group the three wives into two “coalitions,” and Joseph S. Bodenheimer goes one step further by suggesting a broader understanding of Shmuel’s explanation as cited in the Jerusalem Talmud.
- Is it kosher to genetically design babies?
- Why are the Chinese so interested in Jews?
- The worldwide and even cosmic effects of a young kibbutznik’s attempt to halakhically raise crops during the shmittah year.
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