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Dying to Recover: The Life and Loss of Avi Pincus http://www.ou.org/shabbat_shalom/article/dying_to_recover/
You got a shoutout one Slate: http://www.slate.com/id/2201628
where can I find your comments re:post orthodoxy ?
look at Seforim Blog of yesterday. Rabbi Shapiro has an interesting and contentious article. I just quoted the beginning.
“Answers to Quiz Questions and Other Comments, part 2
Answers to Quiz Questions and Other Comments, part 2
by Marc B. Shapiro
1. In my previous post, in discussing the words in Ecclesiastes 2:8 עשיתי לי שרים ושרות, I referred to the interpretation in Kohelet Rabbati. This very section of Kohelet Rabbati has an amazing comment, which as far as I know was never referred to in the dispute over Sara Hurwitz’ rabbinical ordination. Commenting on the words שדה ושדות, which appear in the same sentence as שרים ושרות, the Midrash states:
שדה ושדות: דיינים זכרים ודיינות נקבות