The Boldness of a Halakhist: An Analysis of the Writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein's the Arukh Hashulhan by Fishbane, Simcha

The Boldness of a Halakhist: An Analysis of the Writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein's the Arukh Hashulhan (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781934843031)

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The Boldness of a Halakhist: An Analysis of the Writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein's the Arukh Hashulhan by Fishbane, Simcha

The Boldness of a Halakhist: An Analysis of the Writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein's the Arukh Hashulhan

$109.00
The Boldness of a Halakhist: An Analysis of the Writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein's the Arukh Hashulhan by Fishbane, Simcha

The Boldness of a Halakhist: An Analysis of the Writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein's the Arukh Hashulhan

$109.00
Format: Hardcover
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The Boldness of a Halakhist analyzes the writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein (1829-1908), author of the Arukh Hashulkhan, a bold and unusual approach to Jewish law. Based primarily on the original text of Rabbi Epstein's legal codes and homilies, this work covers topics such as women, modernity, customs, and secular studies. It analyzes the rabbi's approach to Jewish law and Jewish life, designed to promote the spiritual welfare of Jews under the pressures of growing secularization and Russification. Although based upon the principles of the traditional judicial process, the rabbi's rulings demonstrate a profound understanding of the contemporary social and historical reality facing the Jews of Russia at the turn of the century.

Author: Simcha Fishbane
ISBN-10: 1934843032
ISBN-13: 9781934843031
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2008
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
By Simcha Fishbane
By Simcha Fishbane
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Simcha Fishbane (Ph.D. - Concordia University, Montreal, Canada 1998) is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Executive Assistant to the President of Touro College. Dr. Fishbane's books include Deviancy in Early Rabbinic Literature (Brill, 2007), Jewish Studies in Violence, edited by and introduced by Simcha Fishbane (UPA, 2006), Voodoo or Judaism, The Ritual of Kapparot: People Medicine and Magic in Jewish and Slavic Cultural Tradition (Moscow, 2007).

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