Important Articles
Hakirah contains articles from rabbis, doctors, scholars and lay-people throughout the world. Some of the articles which created a sensation upon publication are:
- “Mezizah be-Peh – Therapeutic Touch or Hippocratic Vestige?” by Shlomo Sprecher argues against the need to perform Mezizah with the mouth and shows that Hatam Sofer was of the same opinion.
- “Is Handshaking a Torah Violation?” by Yehuda Henkin argues that for a man to shake a woman’s hand in a business setting is not a Biblical prohibition (see Negiah). See also letters and follow-up in the following volume.
- A pair of articles by Aharon Hersh Fried “Are our Children too Worldly?” and “Is there a Disconnect between Torah Learning and Torah Living” examines the failures of a yeshiva education.
- “A Hagiographer’s Review of “Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters”” by Asher Benzion Buchman challenges the claim of an academic that Rambam was careless and made many errors.
- Three articles in volume 7 by Yehuda Henkin, Marc D. Angel and Eliezer ben Porat question the decision by a Beit Din in Israel that invalidated retroactively the conversion of thousands of converts to Judaism.
- An article in volume 9 by Joe Bobker, To Flee Or To Stay is a gut-wrenching article about the advice and decisions made by community leaders and rabbis on whether or not to flee the Nazi onslaught.
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