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Halakhah, Halakhic Books/Works/Writings, Rabbis

“The ability of an individual halakhist to bring about a change depends…on one’s ability to foresee the opposition of one’s peers to one’s innovation”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 November 2018
…the ability of an individual halakhist to bring about a change depends, to a...
Tagged Halakhah, halakhic decisor, halakhic discourse, posek, Poskim |
Halakhic Books/Works/Writings

“The notion that the seven blood-free days are an undue stringency imposed by the Rabbis is a commonplace of contemporary halakhic discussion among liberal Orthodox and non-Orthodox feminist Jews who discuss the laws of nidah…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 May 2017
The notion that the seven blood-free days are an undue stringency imposed by the...
Tagged halakhic guidebooks, Niddah |
Halakhic Books/Works/Writings

“The family purity handbook shares the qualities of the other halakhic handbooks…, but it has a history of its own”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 May 2017
The family purity handbook shares the qualities of the other halakhic handbooks…, but it...
Tagged halakhic books, halakhic guidebooks, halakhic handbooks, Niddah |
Halakhic Books/Works/Writings

“…the needs of men and women informed by the values of our society are very different from those of the unlearned Ashkenazi masses of the past”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 March 2017
The technique of obscuring the difference between legislation and custom is well entrenched in...
Tagged Halakhah, halakhic handbooks, minhag |
Halakhic Books/Works/Writings

“Short apodictic summaries of halakhah are necessarily monolithic”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 February 2017
Short apodictic summaries of halakhah are necessarily monolithic. By contrast, discussions citing and accurately...
Tagged Halakhah, halakhic books, halakhic rulings |
Halakhic Books/Works/Writings, Rabbis

“The firmness of R. lsserles finds its fullest expression in his commentary on the Shulchan Aruch”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 March 2016
The firmness of R. lsserles finds its fullest expression in his commentary on the...
Tagged Halakhah, Rabbi Moses Isserles, Rabbi Moshe Isserles, rabbis |
Halakhic Books/Works/Writings, Hanukah

“Many halachic authorities dating back to the Rishonim have suggested that the difficult winter weather played a role in the menorah’s being moved indoors”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 December 2015
Many halachic authorities dating back to the Rishonim have suggested that the difficult winter...
Tagged Halakhah, Hanukah, Rishonim |
Halakhah, Halakhic Books/Works/Writings

“…within Mishna Torah, there may be Talmudic laws which have been redefined or reformulated for anti-Qaraite reasons”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 November 2015
Professor Haym Soloveitchik has argued convincingly that the unique arrangement of Hilchos Shabbos in...
Tagged Halakhah, Haym Soloveitchik, Karaite, Mishnah Torah, Rambam |
Halakhic Books/Works/Writings

“The third element of the Tosafist enterprise, and the final stage chronologically, was the process of editing”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 September 2015
The third element of the Tosafist enterprise, and the final stage chronologically, was the...
Tagged Medieval Scholars, Tosafists, Tosafot |
Halakhic Books/Works/Writings

“…when operating as an editor, a Tosafist seldom introduced new material into the text”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 September 2015
A great challenge facing those who sought to edit the integrated commentaries was the...
Tagged Medieval, Tosafot |
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