Michael J. Broyde, Ira Bedzow

Gebundenes Buch

The Codification of Jewish Law and an Introduction to the Jurisprudence of the Mishna Berura

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Michael J. Broyde is a law professor at Emory University in Atlanta who has served in a variety of rabbinic positions throughout the United States. During the 2018 academic year, he was a senior Fulbright scholar at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and in 2019, he was a visiting professor of Jewish law at Stanford Law School. Reuven Travis taught a wide range of classes over his twenty-year career as an educator, including Jewish law, Bible, and Jewish history. He holds a master's degree in teaching from Mercer University and a master's in Judaic studies from Spertus College. He has published three scholarly works on the book of Job, the book of Numbers, and the book of Genesis, respectively.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 757g
• ISBN-13: 9781618112781
• ISBN-10: 1618112783
• Artikelnr.: 41793599