The codification of Jewish law : and an introduction to the jurisprudence of the Mishna Berura / Michael J. Broyde and Ira Bedzow ; cover design by Ivan Grave.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broyde, Michael J., author.

Bedzow, Ira, author.

Contributor:

Grave, Ivan, cover designer.

OpenEmory, Funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Israel Meir, ha-Kohen, 1838-1933. Mishnah berurah.

Israel Meir.

Jewish law--Codification.

Jewish law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Academic Studies Press 2014

Brighton, Massachusetts : Academic Studies Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgments

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. General Methodology of Codification of Jewish Law

II. History of Codification

III. Introduction to Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan and the Mishna Berura

IV. Mishna Berura's Philosophy of Jewish Law

V. Mishna Berura's Jurisprudence

VI. The Mishna Berura's Technique of Legal Interpretation

VII. The Mishna Berura's Use of Key Terms

VIII. Examples of the Mishna Berura's Methodology

IX. Alternative Views of the Mishna Berura's Methodology

X. Conclusion

Two Hundred Fifty Illustrative Examples from the Mishna Berura

Terminology

Juridical Strategy

Interpretative Strategy

The Accretive Technique

Reliance on the Gra

The Role of Custom

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 17, 2015).

ISBN:

1-61811-451-4

1-61811-846-3

1-61811-279-1

OCLC:

922977910