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Title

Mishpetei shalom : a jubilee volume in honor of Rabbi Saul (Shalom) Berman / edited by Yamin Levy.

Publication

Riverdale, NY : Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School ; Jersey City, NJ : Distributed by KTAV, [2010]

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Additional Authors

• Berman, Saul J.
• Levy, Yamin.
• Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School.

Description

xiv, 656 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Jewish law
• Mishpat Ivri

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Rabbi Kook and Rabbi Uziel / Marc D. Angel -- The moving of a Sefer Torah / Saul J. Berman -- Lifnim mishurat hadin / Saul J. Berman -- Jewish law and international law / Michael J. Broyde -- Why should a slave want freedom? / Shalom Carmy --The divine honor roll / Mark Dratch -- History, halakhah, and revelation / Yaakov Elman -- Who will be a Jew? / Seth Farber -- Extra-legal punishments in medieval Jewish courts / Zev Farber -- The impact of biblical thinking on criminology / George P. Fletcher -- Kabalat ol mitzvot / Jeffrey Fox -- Minority opinions and their role In Horaah / Nathaniel Helfgot -- Are prophets above the law? / Aryeh Klapper -- Orthodoxy, modern pluralism, and the Christian other / Eugene Korn -- Changes in the world of Jewish divorce / Rachel Levmore -- Maimonides on authority, obedience, and the pursuit of reason / Yamin Levy -- Tzaʻar baʻalei chaim / Dov Linzer -- Judaism and democracy / Shlomo Riskin -- On a seeming disconnect between halakha and theology / David Shatz -- Religion and state / Suzanne Last Stone -- Women and sifrei Torah / Avraham Weiss -- The two contemporary varieties of Orthodox Judaism / Alan J. Yuter -- What happened to the Ten Lost Tribes? / Dov S. Zakheim.

ISBN

• 9781602801479
• 1602801479

LCCN

^^2010016905

OCLC

613292924

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library