Machloket (Torah Debate)

Said Rabbi Eliezer: "If the law is as I say, then may the walls of the house of study prove it!" The walls began to fall in. Rabbi Joshua rebuked them. "If Torah scholars are debating a point of Jewish law, what are your qualifications to intervene...?"

For truth to be upheld, it is fundamental that human beings do not live in intellectual isolation, only hearing views that reinforce their own...

Differing customs reflect the multiplicity of ways of relating to G‑d that characterize our people.

Why are there two Talmuds? And why is the "Babylonian Talmud" concidered more authoritative than the "Jerusalem Talmud"?

The Sages tell us that the Giving of the Torah took into account the diversity among those who were receiving it. The Torah was given with the potential to be explained in 600,000 different ways, for each of the 600,000 different souls...

There are so many differences of opinion as to what happened and what it means--how can they all be right?

Is the Torah's process for determining Halacha an attempt to arrive at the one true answer or are there multiple truths?

Question: I have noticed that people place the mezuzahs on their doorposts on an angle. Is there a reason for this? Response: Yes, indeed. In Ashkenazi tradition, the top of the mezuzah is inclined towards the inside of the room and the bottom towards ...