The accession of Goldziher’s library marked a triumph for the Hebrew University. Several generations of students and scholars ...

It should come as no surprise that over the course of four millennia of Jewish history, numerous controversies (mahlokot) ...

They reflect the author's lifetime interest in the history of halakhah - not as intellectual history per se, but rather a concern to identify measurable deflection in the unfolding of halakhic ideas ...

In my view, it is this vibrancy that makes halakhah so beautiful.” Jewish wearers of phylacteries (tefillin) for prayer have taken it for granted that the cases that hold them and the straps ...

Recently I was reading that in Halakhah (Jewish law), animals are to be fed before humans. I had to laugh since if I tried to ...

Please contact Liverpool University Press for availability about this product This classic study of the idea of Noahide law traces the concept's historical development and shows how it is relevant to ...

This includes tasks such as cooking and driving. Orthodox Jews close Orthodox JewsJews who live by the Torah and rabbinic law (halakhah) and who only accept changes that can be supported by the Torah.