The Boldness of a Halakhist

Simcha Fishbane

ISBN 10: 1934843032 / ISBN 13: 9781934843031

Editore: Academic Studies Press, 2008

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Riassunto:

This book analyzes the writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein (1829-1908), author of the Arukh Hashulkhan, a bold and unusual approach to Jewish law. Based primarily on the original text of Rabbi Epstein's legal codes and homilies, this work covers topics such as women, modernity, customs, and secular studies. It analyzes the rabbi's approach to Jewish law and Jewish life, designed to promote the spiritual welfare of Jews under the pressures of growing secularization and russification. Although based upon the principles of the traditional judicial process, the rabbi’s rulings demonstrate a profound understanding of the contemporary social and historical reality facing the Jews of Russia at the turn of the century.

Informazioni sull?autore: Simcha Fishbane (Ph.D. - Concordia University, Montreal, Canada 1998) is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Executive Assistant to the President of Touro College. Dr. Fishbane's books include Deviancy in Early Rabbinic Literature (Brill, 2007), Jewish Studies in Violence, edited by and introduced by Simcha Fishbane (UPA, 2006), Voodoo or Judaism, The Ritual of Kapparot: People Medicine and Magic in Jewish and Slavic Cultural Tradition (Moscow, 2007).

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Titolo: The Boldness of a Halakhist
Casa editrice: Academic Studies Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2008
Legatura: HRD
Condizione: New