What would the rabbis of the Mishnah and Talmud think of how halaḥah is applied and practiced today?
Would they be impressed or horrified? What accounts for the dramatic shift in halaḥic practice in the past 40 years? Let’s discuss after Kiddush.

Dan Aviv is Lead Design at ADRABA, a new blended-learning Jewish high school opening in Toronto in September 2019. He has been engaged in Jewish learning as an educator, lecturer, professor, published scholar, author, podcaster and reluctant public intellectual for over 25 years.