Shulchan Aruch HaChadash

I have decided to re-publish the Shulchan Aruch. It sounds unnecessary since the Haredim already have a monopoly on the publication of religious books, however I can offer something they cannot, a haskomoh which embraces modernity and gives over a relevant message. When one opens the this new publication of the Shulchan Aruch the song 'The Times they are a-Changin' by Bob Dylan will play. 

An adapted version of the lyrics are below.

Come gather ’round people

Wherever you roam

And admit that the Torah

Around you have grown

And accept it that soon

You’ll be drenched to the bone

If your Torah to you is worth savin’

Then you better start changin’ or you’ll fry out like a blaze

For the times they are a-changin’

Come rabbis and scholars

Who prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes wide

The chance won’t come again

And don’t speak too soon

For the wheel’s still in spin

And there’s no tellin’ who that it’s namin’

For the loser now will be later to win

For the times they are a-changin’

Come students, teachers

Please heed the call

Don’t stand in the doorway

Don’t block up the hall

For he that gets hurt

Will be he who has stalled

There’s a battle outside and it is ragin’

It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls

For the times they are a-changin’

Come zaide and booba

Throughout the land

And don’t criticize

What you can’t understand

Your sons and your daughters

Are beyond your command

Your old road is rapidly agin’

Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand

For the times they are a-changin’

The line it is drawn

The curse it is cast

The slow one now

Will later be fast

As the present now

Will later be past

The order is rapidly fadin’

And the first one now will later be last

For the times they are a-changin’

I understand this is dangerous ground, nevertheless if halacha does not continue to grow and adapt many of the youth will become disenfranchised and fail to see the beauty of Judaism. 

Pamela Anderson and the charedi photo-shoot

Recently, Pamela Anderson wrote a letter to a number of charedi MK’s in support of a ban on fur garments, mainly targeted at the shtreimel industry. Ms Anderson admitted that she is writing from purely a fashion standpoint. In a candid interview with Rabbi Yitzchok Meir Senderson, Pamela admitted that she has never liked men with hairy chests, facial hair or side burns. What bothers me the most is what Senderson was doing in a room with only Pamela and interview materials, whatever they may be. Rabbi Senderson is currently denying that he had any knowledge that she starred in the TV show ‘Baywatch’.

Ms. Anderson is scheduled to have a meeting regarding this matter in the coming days. Ms. Anderson will be meeting with the leadership of the charedi movement as 'women' have not been acknowledged as an official species, consequently allowing men and ‘women’ to be in the same room together. This halachik loophole was found by some of the biggest rabbis of our generation.

When I approached an educator in the charedi community regarding how the charedi community interprets the seemingly ‘female’ characters in the chumash, for instance, Rachel, he responded that some characters and stories were placed in the chumash to test our belief in God, even though they may not be completely truthful.

UPDATE: The above photo is what Ms Anderson was spotted wearing in Mea Shearim hours before the meeting. She was praised for her simple yet elegant shapeless black dress.