יום שלישי, ה׳ אלול תשפ״וTuesday, August 18, 2026
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By DovBear
The question that I always have for those who are not invested in the revelation at Sinai is, why keep these 613 mitzvot?
It is a fact that heterodoxy is no longer the threat to Orthodoxy it once was – if at all.
Rabbi Asher Lopatin, who will succeed Rabbi Avi Weiss as head of YCT, is most definitely on the left side of the Orthodox spectrum. Nevertheless he can keep YCT from sliding too far to the left and cross the line of Orthodoxy. YCT founder Rabbi Avi Weiss candidly admitted that he has parted ways with his Rebbe on the approach to these issues. And he has incorporated it into the philosophy of his Yeshiva.
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