Center for Modern Torah Leadership

Center for Modern Torah Leadership The Center for Modern Torah Leadership sees the moral and intellectual challenges of modernity as religious opportunities.

To foster a vision of fully committed halakhic Judaism that embraces the intellectual and moral challenges of modernity as spiritual opportunities to create authentic leaders. To seize these opportunities, the Center:

a) brings rigorous traditional scholarship, interdisciplinary openness, and a deeply humanist understanding of halakhah to every aspect of Jewish and public life;

b) nurtures male

and female Torah scholars who are brilliant and idealistic, and disseminates their ideas

c) develops and inspires strategic thinkers and reflective communities who understand that Torah conversations are the engine of Jewish progress, and who take responsibility for the real-world consequences of their Torah conversations

d) educates toward the necessity of courage and integrity in all aspects of Torah learning and leadership

The Center attracts the best and brightest of Modern Orthodoxy through unique programs that catalyze intellectual creativity, educational innovation and personal transformation. Our aim is to make halakhah the shared spiritual language of the Jewish community, and to make Jewish discourse an essential contributor to the moral conversation of humanity.

*Unless explicitly stated otherwise, material on this page represents the opinion of its author(s) and not that of The Center for Modern Torah Leadership*

08/21/2026

According to RITVA on Bava Metzia 87b, “the Torah considers it like robbery” for Jewish employee to eat the grapes of a nonJewish employer. Why not just “It is robbery”?

SBM 2026 focused on the question of whether using the language of “rights” in halakhah, rather than that of “duties”, wo...
08/14/2026

SBM 2026 focused on the question of whether using the language of “rights” in halakhah, rather than that of “duties”, would make any difference. Those who argue that the difference is significant tend to claim that the effect shows up only at scale, rather than in any specific case. How, then, to design the 2026 Sheilah?

by Rabbi Aryeh Klapper SBM 2026 focused on the question of whether using the language of “rights” in halakhah, rather than that of “duties”, would make any difference = (have a nafka mina).  S…

08/09/2026
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08/09/2026

https://www.shiurbank.org/s/d74IiU6i

Listen to SBM 2026 Shiur #18.3 August 8 GRAND FINALE, from Taking Responsibility for Torah by Rav Aryeh Klapper, on ShiurBank. Emloyment, slavery, and rights-language in halakhah

08/09/2026

Listen to SBM 2026 Shiur #18.1 August 8 CONCLUSION, from Taking Responsibility for Torah by Rav Aryeh Klapper, on ShiurBank. Levinas on כי לי בני ישראל עבדים

08/09/2026

Two alternative links to part 1 of the dramatic final shiur on rights and duites! An attempt at Levinas - look for a more explicit treatment of the profound and crucial disagreement between Levinas and Rav Aharon Lichtensitein at some point! Thank you to Shiurbank for reaching out to ask to share CMTL's Torah
https://www.shiurbank.org/shiur/c4c6ec00-5874-45f3-92a7-4806774a1c54?v=3https://open.spotify.com/episode/4EOqNdH201EcTKleaoIh9p?si=6acb9ddf0bb74a7d

Listen to SBM 2026 Shiur #18.1 August 8 CONCLUSION, from Taking Responsibility for Torah by Rav Aryeh Klapper, on ShiurBank. Levinas on כי לי בני ישראל עבדים

Is it correct and useful to talk about “rights” under halakhah? What advantages and disadvantages does the rhetoric of r...
08/07/2026

Is it correct and useful to talk about “rights” under halakhah? What advantages and disadvantages does the rhetoric of rights have over the rhetoric of duties?

By Dovi Pfeiffer and Nathan Young, edited by Rabbi Klapper Is it correct and useful to talk about “rights” under halakhah? SBM continued its exploration of that issue via Robert Cover’s comparative…

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