Divine law in human hands
Subtitle: case studies in halakhic flexibility
By: Jacob Katz.
Contributors: Katz, Jacob, 1904-
Publisher: Magnes Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Jerusalem
Language: eng
Number of pages: 551
Subjects: Cabala -- History; Jewish law -- History; Judaism -- Relations; Orthodox Judaism -- Germany -- History; Judaism -- History -- Modern period, 1750-
Notes: Most of the included articles originally appeared in Hebrew in the author's Halakhah ṿe-ḳabalah or Halakhah ba-metsar.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Halakhic Statements in the Zohar; title: Post-Zoharic Relations between Halakhah and; title: Kabbalah; title: Halakhah and Kabbalah as Competing Disciplines; title: of Study; title: Alterations in the Time of the Evening Service; title: (Ma'ariv): An Example of the Interrelationship; title: between Religious Customs and their Social Background; title: Rabbinical Authority and Authorization in the; title: Middle Ages; title: The Dispute between Jacob Berab and Levi ben Habib; title: Over Renewing Ordination; title: The Rule of Halakhah in Traditional Jewish Society:; title: Theory and Praxis; title: Rabbi Raphael Cohen, Moses Mendelssohn's Opponent; title: The Controversy over the Temple in Hamburg and the; title: Rabbinical Assembly in Braunschweig: Milestones; title: in the Development of Orthodoxy; title: The Orthodox Defense of the Second Day of the Festivals; title: The Struggle Over Preserving the Rite of Circumcision in; title: the First Part of the Nineteenth Century; title: Controversy Over the Mezizah, The Unrestricted; title: Execution of the Rite of Circumcision; title: Towards a Biography of the Hatam Sofer; title: An Unclarified Episode in the Life of the Hatam Sofer:; title: The Alexandersohn Affair; title: The Suggested Relationship between Sabbatianism, Haskalah,; title: and Reform; title: Index.