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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*

Chavah sinned because of the snake, and Adam sinned because of Chavah. Why did Kayin sin?
10/09/2026

Chavah sinned because of the snake, and Adam sinned because of Chavah. Why did Kayin sin?

Many of you have asked for text-files of Rabbi Klapper's Kiddush Times series "A Torah Political Theory for the 21st Cen...
10/01/2026

Many of you have asked for text-files of Rabbi Klapper's Kiddush Times series "A Torah Political Theory for the 21st Century". Well be sending out such a file with all six columns as this week;s CMTL Torah essay. The link to sign up for that is in the first comment. If you just want the photopgraph version of all six, here are the links in order. https://tinyurl.com/TorahSocialContract
https://moderntoraleadership.wordpress.com/2026/08/25/from-kiddush-times-international-parshat-ki-tavo/
https://moderntoraleadership.wordpress.com/2026/09/03/equality-bizman-hazeh-from-kiddush-times-international/
https://moderntoraleadership.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/what-is-government-for/
https://moderntoraleadership.wordpress.com/2026/09/15/a-torah-of-inalienable-rights-from-kiddush-times-international-edition/
https://moderntoraleadership.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/the-purpose-of-politics-is-human-freedom-6th-and-final-in-the-series-a-torah-political-theory-for-the-21st-century-by-aryeh-klapper-published-in-kiddush-times-international-edition/

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Is it permitted to carry on Shabbat inside any sukkah, even if the walls do not meet the usual standards for Shabbat? Ma...
09/25/2026

Is it permitted to carry on Shabbat inside any sukkah, even if the walls do not meet the usual standards for Shabbat? May one assume that any reshut hayachid properly roofed is a valid sukkah?

by Rabbi Aryeh Klapper The English language has productive and unproductive suffixes. For example, we tend to pluralize new nouns by adding an “s” at the end. The final “s” is a productive suffix. …

From the CMTL YOM KIPPUR READER, 2019. Link to download link in first comment
09/20/2026

From the CMTL YOM KIPPUR READER, 2019. Link to download link in first comment

“For the ways of Hashem are straight, and the righteous will walk in them, but posh’im will lose their way in them”. Why...
09/18/2026

“For the ways of Hashem are straight, and the righteous will walk in them, but posh’im will lose their way in them”. Why would anyone lose their way on a straight path?

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