The Machine-Made Matzah Controversy: Law and Tradition in Conflict
The acrimonious international debate that ensued in the mid-nineteenth century, when a machine for baking Passover matzot was invented, touched upon essential questions concerning the development of Jewish law and lent expression to deeply-held convictions regarding the relationship between traditional piety and modernization.
This Rapoport Memorial Lecture, taught by Dr. Rachel Furst, is sponsored by Dr. Samuel and Sanda E. Rapoport.
It was originally recorded on 03/07/2013.