On Halakhah: How does Halakhah deal with new technologies? (sources in notes)
Hadar Campus Scholars · David Zvi Kalman
December 5, 201356m 48s
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Show Notes
This class is part of the second version of the series. It uses rabbinic responses to new technologies (e.g. electricity,lab-grown meat, Jews in space) as a peculiar subset of Halakhah which helps illuminate how rabbis negotiate between halakhic sources and their realities. It was delivered by David Zvi Kalman at Penn on Dec. 3, 2013.
Source sheet: davidzvi.com/onhalakhah/On_Halakhah_and_New_Technologies.pdf