To This Day Yeshivat Har Etzion Rabbis few understand the halakhic origins

few understand the halakhic origins of their views

I notice confusion among rabbis as regards basic problems whose solution cannot be found in the Shulhan Arukh and must rather be inferred by way of deduction from ancient principles and axioms

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discusses the laws of the festival of Matzot

To This Day Yeshivat Har Etzion Rabbis few understand the halakhic originsTo This Day, one of Agnons last novels (first published in Hebrew in 1952), is also his last to be translated into English. It is a brilliantly accomplished and haunting work. On the surface it is a comically entertaining tale of a young writera Galician Jew who has lived in Palestine, and returns to Europe on the eve of World War I, to get stranded in Berlin, a city with severe wartime shortages. On a deeper level it is a profound commentary on