Codification of Jewish Law and an Introduction to the Jurisprudence of the Mishna Berura (eBook)

Ira Bedzow, Michael J. Broyde (Autoren)

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2014
350 Seiten
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
9781618112798 (ISBN)

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The Mishna Berura is, without a doubt, Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan's greatest and most complex contribution to the canon of Orthodox Jewish Law; it is a singular work that synthesizes Jewish traditions, laws, and mores into a practical halakhic guide to daily religious life. For all of his traditionalism, Rabbi Kagan was an iconoclast, and the Mishna Berura broke from many of the traditional approaches of deciding halakhic directives. Instead, he favored studying, engaging, and asserting decisions in a nuanced, almost natural approach to how ethical people should live their daily lives consistent with Jewish law. Today, the Mishna Berura has gained widespread recognition and is considered authoritative by essentially all of contemporary Orthodox Jewry, a measure of greatness that few works of Halakha have attained. Michael J. Broyde and Ira Bedzow here investigate this seminal text and explore its background and decision-making process.

Autoren

Ira Bedzow is director of the Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Program and assistant professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine at New York Medical College. He is also senior scholar of the Aspen Center for social values.

Michael J. Broyde is a professor of law at Emory University as well as project director and senior scholar in the Emory University Center for the Study of Law and Religion.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2014
• Verlagsort: Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
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• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
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• ISBN-13: 9781618112798 / 9781618112798