"Wisdom and understanding"
Subtitle: studies in Jewish law in honour of Bernard S. Jackson
By: edited by Leib Moscovitz and Yosef Rivlin
Contributors: Jackson, Bernard S.
Series: Jewish law association studies -- XXII; Jewish Law Association studies -- 22
Publisher: Jewish Law Association
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Liverpool]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781906731175; 9781906731182
Subjects: Jewish law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Women receiving aliyot? : a short halakhic analysis / Michael Broyde; title: Semiotics, miscarriages of justice and the trials of Jesus / Jonathan Burnside and Michael Naughton; title: Biblical law and rabbinic precedent in hard cases : the example of homosexual relations in Conservative/Masorti halakhah / Elliot Dorff; title: The accused bride in Deuteronomy 22:13-21 in the light of early Jewish law / Joseph Fleishman; title: The prozbul : accommodation to reality / Hillel Gamoran; title: Are the halakhic commandments of "father to son" a numerus clausus? / Israel Zvi Gilat; title: The role of discretion in applying punishment in Jewish judicial procedure / Aaron Kirschenbaum; title: Jewish and American inheritance law : commonalities, clashes, and estate planning consequences / Donna C. Litman and Steven H. Resnicoff; title: "We may not infer civil law from ritual law" : some observations on the internal unity of rabbinical law / Leib Moscovitz; title: Retracing traces of rabbinical maritime law and custom / Stephen M. Passamaneck; title: Some new suggestions for reforming the Israeli law of succession in the light of Jewish law : a short halakhic analysis / Yosef Rivlin; title: Theory and praxis in Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady : the Tanya and Shulḥan 'Arukh HaRav / Avinoam Rosenak; title: Fictitious retractions and false attributions : the balance between truth and falsehood in halakhic discourse / Daniel Sinclair; title: Jewish judicial autonomy in nineteenth century Jerusalem : background, jurisdiction, structure / Elimelekh Westreich; title: Teleological decision-making in halakhah : empirical examples and general principles / Zvi Zohar.