Contemporary Halakhic Problems
Author: J. David Bleich
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780881254747
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: J. David Bleich
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780881254747
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: J. David Bleich
Publisher: Ktav Pub Incorporated
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780870682759
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: J. David Bleich
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780870684500
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: J. David Bleich
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780881257410
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Judaism and Healing is a concise, incisive, but nontechnical study of major issues in medical bioethics. Rabbi Bleich examines each topic from the perspective of Jewish tradition. Truth-telling, professional secrecy, population policy, abortion, sex-change surgery, test tube babies, animal experimentation, euthanasia, autopsy, and sex preselection are among the more than thirty topics discussed as a guide to understanding the teachings of normative Judaism. This new and expanded edition adds chapters on AIDS, surrogate motherhood, pregnancy reduction, cloning, and palliation of pain. Rabbi Bleich presents in a clear and lucid manner principles and concerns which enter into the formulation of a Jewish response to each of these issues. Judaism and Healing is a treasure-trover of information with regard to the concerns of both bioethics and Jewish law.
Author: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-08-25
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 900430178X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rabbi J. David Bleich is Professor of Talmud at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law, and Tenzer Professor of Jewish Law and Ethics at Yeshiva University.
Author: Haym Soloveitchik
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2021-09-10
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 1800858213
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The essay that forms the core of this book is an attempt to understand the developments that have occurred in Orthodox Jewry in America in the last seventy years, and to analyse their implications. The prime change is what is often described as ‘the swing to the right’, a marked increase in ritual stringency, a rupture in patterns of behaviour that has had major consequences not only for Jewish society but also for the nature of Jewish spirituality. For Haym Soloveitchik, the key feature at the root of this change is that, as a result of migration to the ‘New Worlds’ of England, the US, and Israel and acculturation to its new surroundings, American Jewry—indeed, much of the Jewish world— had to reconstruct religious practice from normative texts: observance could no longer be transmitted mimetically, on the basis of practices observed in home and street. In consequence, behaviour once governed by habit is now governed by rule. This new edition allows the author to deal with criticisms raised since the essay, long established as a classic in the field, was originally published, and enables readers to gain a fuller perspective on a topic central to today’s Jewish world and its development.
Author: J. David Bleich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-09-18
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 0521765471
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book presents a series of authoritative discussions of the application of Jewish tradition to contemporary social and political issues.
Author: Judith Z. Abrams
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781563680687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Judaism and Disability delves into all of the ancient texts and their explications, including the Tanach, the Hebrew acronym for the Jewish Bible, the Mishnah, considered the foundation of rabbinic literature, and the Bavli, the Babylonian Talmud. Instead of imposing a contemporary consciousness upon these archaic works, this carefully researched book presents their viewpoints as written, in an effort to understand why they expressed the sensibilities that they did.
Author: Asaf Yedidya
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-05-24
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1498534988
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Halakha and the Challenge of Israeli Sovereignty examines the issues surrounding national, political, and religious sovereignty from the vantage point of halakha and its evolution. The work analyzes the efforts of the interpretative communities who adhered to halakha—the rabbinical authorities—as well as other groups who endeavored to help or to change it: the Jewish jurists in Eretz Israel who sought to integrate sections of halakha into the Jewish collective; and the religious academics who wanted more meaningful recognition of halakha in non-halakhic values. The assessment extends from the beginning of the Jewish national movement in the last two decades of the 19th century to the first two decades of the State of Israel, when weighty problems arose that required a halakhic response to the challenge of sovereignty. In this, the volume sheds light on the pliable nature of the concept of halakha, particularly in conjunction with its application to the notion of sovereignty.
Author: J. H. Henkin
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book demonstrates how to interpret Halacha in regard to women in the age of feminism, the conversion to Judaism of children in non-observant homes, and the killing of captured terrorists.