Download or read book Not Your Usual Halacha written by Yair Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of modern issues as they affect jewish law.
Download or read book Not Your Usual Halacha written by Rabbi Yair Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary issues and how the Halacha views them.
Download or read book Not Your Usual Halacha written by Rabbi Yair Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we not look at rainbows? Why did Dayan Roth allegedly remarry his wife after he was put on a heart lung machine? What are the many reasons that we light a yahrtzeit lamp? Is yichud really forbidden if you lost your Kesuvah? Why is the tastier Matzah not ideal? What are the several meanings of the Chad Gadya? All this and more can be found in the seventh volume of Rabbi Yair Hoffman's newest volume of halachic writings.
Download or read book Not Your Usual Halacha written by Yair Hoffman (Rabbi) and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rupture and Reconstruction written by Haym Soloveitchik and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essay that forms the core of this book is an attempt to understand the developments that have occurred in Orthodox Jewry in America in the last seventy years, and to analyse their implications. The prime change is what is often described as ‘the swing to the right’, a marked increase in ritual stringency, a rupture in patterns of behaviour that has had major consequences not only for Jewish society but also for the nature of Jewish spirituality. For Haym Soloveitchik, the key feature at the root of this change is that, as a result of migration to the ‘New Worlds’ of England, the US, and Israel and acculturation to its new surroundings, American Jewry—indeed, much of the Jewish world— had to reconstruct religious practice from normative texts: observance could no longer be transmitted mimetically, on the basis of practices observed in home and street. In consequence, behaviour once governed by habit is now governed by rule. This new edition allows the author to deal with criticisms raised since the essay, long established as a classic in the field, was originally published, and enables readers to gain a fuller perspective on a topic central to today’s Jewish world and its development.
Download or read book Halakhah written by Chaim N. Saiman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the rabbis of the Talmud transformed Jewish law into a way of thinking and talking about everything Typically translated as "Jewish law," halakhah is not an easy match for what is usually thought of as law. This is because the rabbinic legal system has rarely wielded the political power to enforce its rules, nor has it ever been the law of any state. Even more idiosyncratically, the talmudic rabbis claim the study of halakhah is a holy endeavor that brings a person closer to God—a claim no country makes of its law. Chaim Saiman traces how generations of rabbis have used concepts forged in talmudic disputation to do the work that other societies assign not only to philosophy, political theory, theology, and ethics but also to art, drama, and literature. Guiding readers across two millennia of richly illuminating perspectives, this panoramic book shows how halakhah is not just "law" but an entire way of thinking, being, and knowing.
Download or read book Judaism Straight Up written by Moshe Koppel and published by Maggid. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anshei Hayil Hashkamat haboker Netilat yadayim Tsittsit Tefillin Daily prayer service and more written by Haim Levy (Rabbi.) and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Judaism and Disability written by Judith Z. Abrams and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judaism and Disability delves into all of the ancient texts and their explications, including the Tanach, the Hebrew acronym for the Jewish Bible, the Mishnah, considered the foundation of rabbinic literature, and the Bavli, the Babylonian Talmud. Instead of imposing a contemporary consciousness upon these archaic works, this carefully researched book presents their viewpoints as written, in an effort to understand why they expressed the sensibilities that they did.
Download or read book Practical Medical Halachah written by Fred Rosner and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1997 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Download or read book The Newlywed s Guide to Physical Intimacy written by Jennie Rosenfeld and published by Gefen Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexuality is a beautiful part of life - truly a gift from God. As a young couple about to embark on one of life's most important journeys, may you have only joy and success.
Download or read book The Invention of Jewish Theocracy written by Alexander Kaye and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is about the attempt of Orthodox Jewish Zionists to implement traditional Jewish law (halakha) as the law of the State of Israel. These religious Zionists began their quest for a halakhic sate immediately after Israel's establishment in 1948 and competed for legal supremacy with the majority of Israeli Jews who wanted Israel to be a secular democracy. Although Israel never became a halachic state, the conflict over legal authority became the backdrop for a pervasive culture war, whose consequences are felt throughout Israeli society until today. The book traces the origins of the legal ideology of religious Zionists and shows how it emerged in the middle of the twentieth century. It further shows that the ideology, far from being endemic to Jewish religious tradition as its proponents claim, is a version of modern European jurisprudence, in which a centralized state asserts total control over the legal hierarchy within its borders. The book shows how the adoption (conscious or not) of modern jurisprudence has shaped religious attitudes to many aspects of Israeli society and politics, created an ongoing antagonism with the state's civil courts, and led to the creation of a new and increasingly powerful state rabbinate. This account is placed into wider conversations about the place of religion in democracies and the fate of secularism in the modern world. It concludes with suggestions about how a better knowledge of the history of religion and law in Israel may help ease tensions between its religious and secular citizens"--
Download or read book Contemporary Halakhic Problems written by J. David Bleich and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1977 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A at Sha alti written by Yitsḥaḳ ben Daṿid Yosef Zilbershṭain and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contrasts in American and Jewish Law written by Daniel Pollack and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American law and the American legal system are rights-based, whereas Jewish law and the halakhic system are duty-based. This distinction goes to the heart of the two legal systems; the basis on which each is founded, how they conceptualize human nature and the social order, and how they function. The American legal system is a human construction forged in a secular society. The halakhic system, while honed and clarified over the centuries by human decisors, is ultimately grounded in a text revealed by God. In consequence, the two legal systems approach problems quite differently. This is explained and illustrated in this volume by discussions of such compelling social issues as euthanasia, medical treatment without consent, search and seizure in schools, procreation rights of prisoners, liability for environmental damage, termination of parental rights due to mental incapacity, and the capacity of the mentally retarded to give informed consent.
Download or read book The Secret of Jewish Femininity written by Tehilla Abramov and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in Targum Jonathan to the Prophets written by Leivy Smolar and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1983 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
