by Simon Jackson | Mar 4, 2005
Simon Jackson Legal Advisor to Torah Mitzion “A pot belonging to partners is neither hot nor cold” (Bava Batra 24b). The Gemara teaches us that a pot belonging to two people really belongs to neither of them, in the sense that both may try to shift the burden...
by Simon Jackson | Feb 18, 2005
Simon Jackson Legal Advisor to Torah Mitzion One of the most difficult questions in the area of environmental protection concerns the question of the balance between the preservation of nature on the one hand and the benefit that is likely to emerge from...
by Simon Jackson | Feb 4, 2005
Simon Jackson Legal Advisor to Torah Mitzion The ideal of conservation may be found in the Torah’s institution of the Sabbatical year (Vayikra 25:1–5): “When you come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto Hashem. Six years...
by Simon Jackson | Jan 21, 2005
Simon Jackson Legal Advisor to Torah Mitzion We learn of the obligation of the individual to protect the public domain from a story included in the Tosefta (Bava Kama 2:10): It happened that a certain person was removing stones from his ground onto public...
by Simon Jackson | Jan 7, 2005
Simon Jackson Legal Advisor to Torah Mitzion v “When God created Adam, he showed him all the trees of the Garden of Eden and said to him: See my works, how lovely they are, how fine they are. All I have created, I created for you. Take care not to corrupt and...
by Simon Jackson | Dec 24, 2004
Simon Jackson Legal Advisor to Torah Mitzion The festival of Chanukah that we have just concluded commemorates the purification and rededication of the Beit HaMikdash – bayamim hahem. Bazeman hazeh, learners of the Daf Yomi cycle have just concluded the...
by Simon Jackson | Dec 10, 2004
Simon Jackson Legal Advisor to Torah Mitzion – Jewish Law in the Debates of the Knesset – At the time the draft Wildlife Protection Bill was debated in the Knesset (1955), several MKs voiced their displeasure at the fact that the bill, although beneficial in...
by Simon Jackson | Nov 26, 2004
Simon Jackson Legal Advisor to Torah Mitzion We ended our last column by concluding that the majority of Halachic codifiers permit tza’ar ba’alei haim for monetary gain, albeit that they all recoil morally from benefiting in this manner. What is the scope of...
by Simon Jackson | Nov 12, 2004
Simon Jackson Legal Advisor to Torah Mitzion The Torah instructs Adam to “have dominion over… every living thing that creeps on the earth” (Bereshit 1:28). After Noach and his sons left the Ark, Hashem gave them the blessing that “the fear of you and the dread...
by Simon Jackson | Oct 30, 2004
Simon Jackson Legal Advisor to Torah Mitzion Last year, Israel’s High Court of Justice was petitioned by “Noah – The Israeli Federation of Animal Protection Organizations,” an umbrella organization for animal rights organizations in Israel, to declare...
