Articles by Talya Laufer

The Untraveled Road from Ma’aleh Adumim to Alon Shevut

Reviewed Book: Haim Sabato, In Quest of Your Presence: Conversations with Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein (Hebrew) (Tel Aviv: Yedioth Aharonoth Books and Chemed Books, 2011). This past Rosh Hodesh Elul, for the first time in recent Israeli publishing history, a non-fiction book was sold out before ... Read more →

A Spectrum of Rabbi-Student Relationships in Light of the Year in Israel

The Gemara in Berakhot 62a relates a series of anecdotes about two Tanna’im and an Amora and the extremes to which each of them went in order to learn from his teacher. R. Akiva and Ben Azzai followed their mentors to the bathroom, while R. Kahana lay hidden under the marital bed of his ... Read more →