Query: inheritance jewish law

title: Inheriting the Crown in Jewish Law: The Struggle for Rabbinic Compensation, Tenure, and Inheritance Rights (review)

title: With Donna Litman, Jewish and American Inheritance Law: Commonalities, Clashes, and Estate Planning Consequences (forthcoming in Jewish Law Association Studies)

title: The Consequences of Unintentional Incest in Jewish Law and Modern Society
abstract: This article first describes Jewish law's teachings on matters concerning lineage. The Gemara establishes the fundamental importance of genealogy. It leads us to see that matters of genealogy require a higher standard of care than other matters and that human interventions in this area should be undertaken with great circumspection. In this way, the Gemara provides a prophetic basis for addressing current concerns. Genealogy is of fundamental importance to Jewish cosmology and social thought. Inheritance and the kinship system are of fundamental importance in Jewish law. Thus it is crucial to protect the integrity of the kinship system, to preserve clarity about parentage and all matters of ancestry, and to preserve liceity, that is, fidelity to law, in kinship. Surrogacy, gamete donation, and other assisted reproduction techniques present new genealogical issues that demand consideration in the context of Jewish tradition. Incest is seen as repugnant today, as it was in ancient times. Incest can have devastating medical consequences for children whose parents are close relatives. The closer the genetic relationship, the greater the likelihood of a genetic mutation. Under Jewish law, Halacha, if the parents are first degree relatives (that is, fully or partially siblings) the child born from the union will have the added stigma of the status of a mamzer.

title: Inheriting the Crown in Jewish Law: The Struggle for Rabbinic Compensation, Tenure, and Inheritance Rights

title: Inheriting the Crown in Jewish Law: The Struggle for Rabbinic Compensation, Tenure, and Inheritance Rights

title: Jonathan S. Milgram. From Mesopotamia to the Mishnah: Tannaitic Inheritance Law in Its Legal and Social Contexts. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 164. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016. xxi 201 pp.
abstract: atively ambiguous. The quotation ends the book. I was left wanting a more formal conclusion in its wake, especially since here her reasons for rejecting the alleged interpolation identify wider assumptions and problems affecting the field of ancient Jewish literature (e.g. the Damascus Document) more broadly. By relegating these points mostly to footnotes and providing no concluding reflections on their broader implications, Halpern Amaru undersells the significance of her work. Halpern Amaru's meticulous footnotes thoroughly engage the manuscript evidence, acknowledging when she must (propose and) rely on a reconstruction of the Hebrew based on a particular medieval Ethiopic reading. She transliterates and translates the Ge'ez, but often leaves Hebrew untranslated, a logical and handy approach for most scholars of ancient Judaism. Halpern Amaru juggles so much linguistic, literary, and exegetical data that her arguments would be obscured (and her book too lengthy) if she consistently rendered things intelligible for those who cannot read Hebrew. But this obviously limits accessibility for scholars more skilled in New Testament literature that, like Jubilees, is similarly saturated with representative allusions and implicit exegesis. Halpern Amaru's willingness to engage and consider Jubilees as "a unitary text that may reflect the work of a single author or the hand of a final editor" (21) allows her to see and account for nuanced details of biblical exegesis, theology, and literary expression that the source critical approaches of other scholars have missed. This holistic "literary approach" to the text (20) provides a model not only for future work in Jubilees, but, in the eyes of this reviewer, for study of 1 2 Chronicles, the Damascus Document, and other works of Second Temple literature. In both substance of argument and method of approach, Halpern Amaru consistently and convincingly conveys what the author of Jubilees is doing (that is, what goes into and is conveyed by the composition) and how we, as scholars, should talk about it at the micro level of a particular passage of narrative or legislation, at the macro level of the more prolonged literary efforts sustained across the book as a unity, and at so many intervening loci where such micro and macro efforts converge.

title: Inheriting the Crown in Jewish Law: The Struggle for Rabbinic Compensation, Tenure and Inheritance Rights By Jeffrey I. Roth

title: Inheriting the Crown in Jewish Law: The Struggle for Rabbinic Compensation, Tenure, and Inheritance Rights
abstract: A comprehensive legal history of changing remuneration practices among the rabbinate. In his legal history of the rabbinic profession from biblical to modern times, Jeffrey I. Roth traces the development of principles governing compensation and related benefits for rabbis, scholars, teachers, and judges under Jewish law. Roth focuses on the disconnect that evolved as rabbis wished to serve God and their communities yet needed to provide for the material needs of their families. He charts the shift from the Talmudic ideal of uncompensated service and follows the development of four material advantages sought by the rabbinic profession compensation, protection against competition, principles of tenure in office, and inheritance rights. Roth assesses how Jewish legal authorities dealt with seemingly conflicting material and spiritual requirements. Analyzing two millennia of legal and intellectual history, he depicts the struggle of rabbinical authorities and scholars of the Torah to answer questions about their profession in a way that allowed the rabbinate to survive while limiting compromises with received standards. Through vivid historical vignettes, Roth tells a story of legal ingenuity and religious courage, of flexibility in Jewish law, and of a responsiveness to changing circumstances that ultimately, although often hesitantly, laid the foundation for the modern rabbinate. In one of the few studies of the rabbinate cutting across countries and movements, Roth places rabbis in the social and economic contexts of their times and depicts them not just as religious leaders but as wage earners, providers for their dependents, and competitors in the provision of fee based services for the more lucrative and prestigious positions. He also draws thoughtful parallels between rabbinic tenure and university academic tenure, noting that both protect the teacher and scholar from ever changing political winds.

title: The Jewish law of family and inheritance and its application in Palestine

title: The Jewish Law of Inheritance: Problems and Solutions in Making a Jewish Will. By Dayan S. Grunfeld [Targum Press, Oak Park Michigan and Feldheim, Jerusalem and New York, 1987, xxi 146 pp.