Rabbinic and lay communal authority
By: edited by Suzanne Last Stone.
Contributors: Stone, Suzanne Last.
Series: The Orthodox forum series
Publisher: Michael Scharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9780881259537
Subjects: Rabbis -- Office -- Congresses.; Authority -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- Congresses.; Jewish leadership -- Congresses.; Leadership -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- Congresses.; Jewish law -- Decision making -- Congresses.; Tradition (Judaism) -- Congresses.; Orthodox Judaism -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-170) and index.
Table of contents: On lay legislation in halakhah : the king as instance / Gerald J. Blidstein; Communal governance, lay and rabbinic : an overview / Aharon Lichtenstein; Charismatic leader, charismatic book : Rabbi Shneur Zalman's Tanya and his leadership / Nehemia Polen; Rav, rosh yeshivah, and kahal / Shaul Stampfer; New conditions and new models of authority : the yoatzot halakhah / Chana Henkin; The role and authority of the rabbi in American society / Chaim I. Waxman; New conditions and models of authority : changing patterns within contemporary Orthodoxy / Steven Bayme; On constructively harnessing tensions between laity and clergy / Marc D. Stern.