Setting the table : : an introduction to the jurisprudence Rabbi Yechiel Mikhel Epstein's Arukh HaShulhan / / Michael J. Broyde and Shlomo C. Pill.
One of the most basic questions for any legal system is that of methodology: how one interprets, analyzes, weighs and applies a mass of often competing legal rules, precedents, practices, customs, and traditions to reach final determinations and practical guidance about the correct legal-prescribed...
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Place / Publishing House: | Brookline, Massachusetts : : Academic Studies Press,, [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 412 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I—Setting the Table: The Codification of Jewish Law
- Chapter One: Codifying Jewish Law
- Chapter Two: Rabbi Yechiel Mikhel Epstein’s Arukh HaShulchan
- Chapter Three Competing Models: The Arukh HaShulchan and Mishnah Berurah
- Part II—The Methodological Principles of the Arukh HaShulchan
- Introduction
- Chapter Four: The Rule of the Talmud
- Chapter Five Rabbinic Consensus
- Chapter Six Resolving Doubtful Cases
- Chapter Seven Non-Normative Opinions
- Chapter Eight Supererogatory Religious Conduct
- Chapter Nine Law and Mysticism
- Chapter Ten Law and Custom
- Chapter Eleven Temporal Rationalization of Halakhic Rules
- Chapter Twelve Law and Pragmatism
- Part III—Illustrative Examples from the Arukh HaShulchan
- The Arukh HaShulchan’s Methodological Principles for Reaching Halakhic Conclusions
- The Ten Methodological Principles of the Arukh HaShulchan
- Bibliography
- Index of Biblical and Rabbinic Works Cited
- Index of Names and Subjects
- Index of Examples by Methodological Principle