Rabbinic and lay communal authority
By: edited by Suzanne Last Stone.
Contributors: Stone, Suzanne Last.
Series: Orthodox forum series
Publisher: KTAV Pub. House, Inc.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Jersey City, NJ
Language: eng
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 and index.
Table of contents: value: On lay legislation in halakhah : the king as instance / Gerald J. Blidstein; value: Communal governance, lay and rabbinic : an overview / Aharon Lichtenstein; value: Charismatic leader, charismatic book : Rabbi Shneur Zalman's Tanya and his leadership / Nehemia Polen; value: Rav, rosh yeshivah, and kahal / Shaul Stampfer; value: New conditions and new models of authority : the yoatzot halakhah / Chana Henkin; value: The role and authority of the Rabbi in American society / Chaim I. Waxman; value: New conditions and models of authority : changing patterns within contemporary Orthodoxy / Steven Bayme; value: On constructively harnessing tensions between laity and clergy / Marc D. Stern.