A Difference of Opinion:
Halachic Disputes in Jewish History
Rashi and Rabbeinu Tam

Rashi and Rabbeinu Tam were grandfather and grandson, but they were radically different in personality. While Rashi was serenity itself, Rabbeinu Tam was a volcano, and their temperaments shone through in their rulings of Jewish Law. With this authoritative lecture, Rabbi Wein gives us not just a taste of the characters of these great men, he shows how the issues they grappled with clue us in to the world in which they lived.

• Rabbeinu Tam’s legendary childhood
• wine-related issues – practical Halachos
• Christian relations and the backdrop of the Crusades
• different approaches to apostate Jews