...Martin P. Golding © 1983 by The Society for Health and Human Values 1983 Abstract From the perspectives of Jewish tradition, particularly that of the Halakhah (Jewish law), this paper considers the policy problem of the balance in health care allocations between preventive and curative...

... Vespasian Attridge Harold W Bilde Per Cohen Shaye J D Dead Sea Scrolls Feldman Louis H Masada Mason Steve Rajak Tessa Sadducees Yadin Yigael Alexander Jannaeus Ananus Essenes Jesus high priest martyrdom halakhah literary approach to Josephus Nicolaus of Damascus Judas the Galilean...

... in tannaitic halakhah. The tannaitic approach to purity is characterized by the “compartmentalization” of the notions of ritual and moral impurity, and of ritual impurity and sin more generally. Moreover, it addresses the fact that in tannaitic halakhah, ritual impurity...

... Jewish law and culture can facilitate important conversations for Jews in the United States and elsewhere. It emphasizes the importance of creating a strong middle ground among Jews and the role of both halakhah and Jewish narrative (known as aggadah) in effective Jewish...

...The triad ‘women, slaves, and minors’, which is so pervasive in rabbinic halakhah, especially in tannaitic texts, seems to have been more than a convenient theoretical construct circumscribing the ‘other’ from which free male Israelites distinguished themselves. It seems to have been based...

... property law and rabbinic halakhah. agriculture agricultural debt slave slavery farmer price revolt slave market tenant trade trader Matthew Columella Horace Martial Petronius age education entertainer entertainment luxury maintenance papyrological papyrus peasant prostitute...

...This chapter explores the medieval genre of sifrut ha-musar (ethical literature), which has largely been ignored in the recent burgeoning of the field of Jewish ethics. This neglect is attributed to the fact that the genre does not call halakhah into question...

...This chapter traces the origin and source of the halakhah, considering the Talmud. For traditional halakhists, from the immediate post-Talmudic period (the sixth century) down to the present day, the Talmud has always been the final court of appeal in matters of practical halakhah. This is so...

...This chapter discusses how the element of flexibility in the halakhah can be observed in the allowances made for exemptions to the law and for exceptional circumstances. The rabbis discovered the principle of granting exemptions to the law in the Torah itself, where permission is granted...

...This chapter focuses less on the differences in matters of halakhah between the followers of the rabbis on the one hand and the various sectarians on the other than on the responses to the sectarian challenges that are given halakhic expression, i.e. the new rules and regulations introduced...

...This chapter discusses the relationship between halakhah and ethical principles. Since halakhists normally make their decisions on matters relating to real situations, and since Jewish law has a strong religious dimension, the demarcation between Jewish law and ethics is finely drawn. The one...

...This chapter examines how the halakhah relates to a more particular type of conduct, that which is referred to in the rabbinic literature as derekh erets, literally ‘the way of the land’. Derekh Erets denotes what might be described as social conduct: good manners...

...This study of the Jewish legal system (the halakhah) demonstrates that the law embraces every corner of life. The central thesis of this book is that the halakhah, far from being entirely self-sufficient and self-authenticating, is influenced by the attitudes, conscious or unconscious, of its...

... in persuading us of the coherence and wisdom of the halakhic system. The book sets in high relief the humane and transcendental purposes and methods of halakhah as Maimonides conceived of it, in an argument that is sure-footed and convincing....

... been ambivalent about conversion as a possibility and about converts as members of the Jewish community. In Orthodox Judaism, conversion, law, and politics meet in modern Jewish life through Jewish law, or halakhah. The Bible contains examples of conversion via marriage. This chapter focuses...

..., Zvi Hirsch Chajes, Jacob Ettlinger, and Seligman Baer Bamberger toward conversion and intermarriage, as articulated in their responsa. It also considers the views of a second group of Orthodox leaders, who invoked the halakhah in expressing their opinions about intermarriage and conversion. Bernays...

... methodological assumptions and involves some serious difficulties. While the sectarians left a relatively large textual inheritance of their literary creation, all present day knowledge of the Pharisaic halakhah stems from indirect sources. These include the writings of Flavius Josephus and Philo of Alexandria...

...With the destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E., the Sadducees, the Qumran sectarians, and other Jewish groups disappeared and only the Pharisees' tradition survived within the rabbinic movement. This chapter assesses the findings related to Halakhah and suggests a new explanation...

... the metaphysical nature of the universe either. Rather, the commandments of the Torah are wise and beneficial, but in many cases reflect specific historical realities. The chapter then addresses the question about the nature of halakhah, which has profound implications for the understanding of what halakhah...

...This chapter studies the representations of the oral nature of rabbinic law (halakhah) and text‐interpretive tradition as found in the earliest extant rabbinic literary sources: the Mishnah and the Tosefta. In these early Tannaitic sources, the tradition of halakhah is represented in a variety...