Rabbi Moishele Fogel
Rabbi Moishele Fogel teaches Chassidic philosophy and Jewish Law at Congregation Machzikei Hadas. He graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School, where he was awarded a Masters in Law (LL.M) as well as a Graduate Diploma in International and Security Studies from York University. While completing his LL.M, Rabbi Fogel taught Talmud and Bible studies at Mesivta Lubavitch Toronto. He received Rabbinical Ordination and a Bachelors in Religious Studies from the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, New Jersey, and his advanced Rabbinical Judicial Ordination (Dayanus) under Rabbi Dovid Shochet, the ranking member of the International Beth Din of Chabad Lubavitch.
Bio last updated June 17th, 2021.
Articles by Rabbi Moishele Fogel
Reverence and the Rule of Law
By Rabbi Moishele Fogel
February 15, 2019
As Canada’s Parliament is convulsed by a cabinet-splitting controversy that goes to the heart of our legal system, Ottawa Rabbi Moishele Fogel has released a research paper on the vital role of ancient Jewish law, Halacha, in sustaining identity and relationships. The full report can be read on the Cardus Religious Freedom Institute web site.
The goal of my paper is to provide insight into the relationships between Halacha, the Jewish people, and the various forms of state and State legal systems they have crossed paths with throughout the millennia For thousands of years, the Jewish community has used Halacha as a mechanism for defining its relationship with the broader community of nations and its various legal systems
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Yom Kippur and the Tale of Two Goats
Rabbi Moishele Fogel
September 19, 2018
On this day of fasting and Atonement for Jews, Yom Kippur, Convivium publishes a text written earlier in the week by Rabbi Moshe Fogel exploring the path by which we come home to God.
On Yom Kippur a person can choose which goat she or he wants to be – the Azazel goat who walks alone in the desert or the Temple goat who is welcomed home The goats were just part of the Temple’s many rituals and I never really considered the underlying symbolism or inherent link between the Azazel ...
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Freedom in the Law
Rabbi Moishele Fogel
May 23, 2018
While many Canadians spent the long weekend lolly-gagging in the name of a long-gone British monarch, Jews celebrated the feast of Shavuot – Pentecost. Convivium contributor Rabbi Moishele Fogel examines the historical origin and theological complexity of a holiday devoted to the Torah, its rules, and its obligations that give a paradoxical promise of liberty to God's Chosen People.
Shavuot is considered to be the final step of the Exodus when God freed the Jewish people from bondage in Egypt so they could serve Him – through observance of the Torah – and be His people Through the study of Torah and observance of its directives, human beings are able to realize the Divine inten...