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Sources And Reasons In the Torah, we find the command to observe a Sabbatical Year, the shemita (Devarim 15:1-11). There are two aspects of this mitzvah: the land is not to be worked and all…
Read MoreSources And Reasons In the Torah, we find the command to observe a Sabbatical Year, the shemita (Devarim 15:1-11). There are two aspects of this mitzvah: the land is not to be worked and all…
Read MoreIn our highly advanced technological age, the duplication of original works of authorship has become almost effortless. While at one time, manuscripts or books had to be copied laboriously by hand, it is now possible…
Introduction In recent times, inflation has been widely recognized as a menacing social problem. While the rate of inflation in 1982 has considerably abated, its scourge wrenches recent memory. For the years 1980 and 1981,…
Rav Asher Meir is a fellow at Machon Keter, a think-tank which studies halakhic aspects of economic activity. Aside from his Talmudic studies, he completed an advanced economic degree at MIT. I. THE NATURE OF…