Teshuva According to Rambam: Hilchot Teshuva Vol. 2
Teshuva According to Rambam: Hilchot Teshuva Vol. 2

Author: Rav Matis Weinberg

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 1365981711

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"The unique Torah approach of Rav Matis Weinberg has created here a comprehensive vision of Rambam's Hilchot Teshuva, exposing the inimitable and striking novel conceptual structures and paradigms of the Rambam." -- Back cover.

Shaarei Halachah
Shaarei Halachah

Author: Zeʼev Grinṿald

Publisher: Feldheim Publishers

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 9781583304341

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This masterpiece fills a great need for our generation--a generation characterized by a thirst for the eternal values of Judaism. Now, the English-speaking reader can enjoy a clearly written and easy to read summary of Jewish law, based on the Mishnah Berurah. Among the many topics included in this work are: Tzitzis, the daily routine, prayer, tefillin, blessings, the Sabbath, festivals and special days, the dietary laws, and mourning. Shaarei Halachah has been hailed as the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch for our time.

Halachic Positions
Halachic Positions

Author: Yaakov Shapiro

Publisher:

Published: 2015-11-25

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9780692563236

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Since ancient times, Judaism has offered a wide range of approaches on the matter of sexual expression within marriage, reflecting a wide range of interpretation and sensibility, and theoretically enabling each and every couple to tailor the law of this most intimate and private part of life to the unique physical and spiritual dimensions of their relationship. But a study of the sources reveals a trend in the last few hundred years to downplay, or even deny, Torah's embrace of sexual exploration within marriage, generally revealing to the masses only its most puritanical approach. This study opens up Judaism's sacred texts on sex to the English reader, providing an in-depth analysis of the relevant Talmudic-era passages as well as the medieval, post-medieval and latter-day Jewish commentaries and legal authorities.

Rupture and Reconstruction
Rupture and Reconstruction

Author: Haym Soloveitchik

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2021-09-10

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 1800857861

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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.

History Of The Jewish People Vol 2
History Of The Jewish People Vol 2

Author: James Stevenson Riggs

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-16

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1135780277

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First published in 2007. This study, the companion to Volume I, continues the history of the Jewish people to the time when Christianity became independent of Judaism. The historical study of the life and times of Jesus has brought a clearer realisation of the importance of understanding postexilic Judaism. This volume is both a history of the Jewish people for two hundred and forty years of its existence, and a contribution toward the interpretation of the gospels in so far as a knowledge of the faiths, conditions and aims of Judaism can be interpretive of the form and method of the activity of Jesus. Contents include the historical sources and literature of the period; the causes and occasion of the Maccabean uprising; the struggle for religious and political freedom; the attainment of independence; Judaism in Syria and Egypt; internal divisions and the growth of parties; the revival of Hellenism; the Roman period of Jewish history; the last of the Hasmoneans; Herod the King of the Jews; the inner life of the nation; the final catastrophe at Masada and glimpses of Judaism in Palestine after the war and of Judaism in the Dispersion. This comprehensive study clearly shows the complex background to the present, where both faiths - Judaism and Christianity - continue to work out their destinies.

Headlines 2
Headlines 2

Author: Dovid Lichtenstein

Publisher:

Published: 2017-03-31

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 9780692858714

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What is the right to privacy in halacha? When can DNA be used as halachic evidence? How should we treat members of the community who were convicted of crimes? Why can't one steal a kidney to save his life? Is it permitted to kill a terrorist who has been neutralized? Will the imminent arrival of genetically modified meat and fish present a kashrus crisis? -- In addition, the book includes interviews of leading poskim on many of the subjects discussed, including Rav Dovid Cohen, Rav Moshe Heinemann, Rav Doniel Neustadt, Rav Moshe Sternbuch, Rav Asher Weiss, and Rav Mordechai Willig.--