Hakol Kol Yaakov : The Joel Roth Jubilee Volume / edited by Robert A. Harris and Jonathan S. Milgram.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harris, Robert A. (Robert Alan), 1955- editor.

Milgram, Jonathan S., 1971- editor.

Series:

Brill reference library of Judaism ; Volume 61.

The Brill Reference Library of Judaism Series ; Volume 61

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conservative Judaism.

Judaism--United States--History.

Judaism.

Judaism--Customs and practices.

Bible. Pentateuch--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Talmud--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Talmud.

Roth, Joel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2021

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2021]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hakol Kol Yaakov: The Joel Roth Jubilee Volume contains twenty articles dedicated to Rabbi Joel Roth, written by colleagues and students. Some are academic articles in the general area of Talmud and Rabbinics, while others are rabbinic responsa that treat an issue of contemporary Jewish law. In his career, Joel Roth has been known as a scholar and teacher of Talmud par excellence, and, without question, as the preeminent decisor of Jewish law for the Conservative movement of his generation. In the meticulous style and approach of the Talmud scholarship of his generation, Roth painstakingly and precisely assayed the vast array of rabbinic legal sources, and proceeded to apply these in pedagogy, in scholarship and particularly in the production of contemporary legal responsa. The articles in this volume reflect the unique and integrated voice and vision that Joel Roth has brought to the American Jewish community.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

List of Donors

Appreciation

Arnold M. Eisen, Philip Scheim and Mitchell Cohen

To Our Father

Ariel Roth, on behalf of the Roth Children

Bibliography of the Writings of Rabbi Joel Roth

Noah Bickart and Akiva Roth

1 Halakhah, Theology and Psychology: The Case of Maimonides and Obadiah the Proselyte

Eliezer Diamond

2 Providing References for Schools or Jobs, HM 28:1.2014

Elliott Dorff and Marc Gary

3 Mikveh and the Sanctity of Being Created Human

Susan Grossman

4 On the Recitation of "Amen" between Ge'ulah and Tefillah of the Shaharit Service

Robert A. Harris

5 Nishmat Kol Hai : A Literary and Spiritual Commentary

Jeff Hoffman

6 Mar'it Ozen : From the Ancient Water-mill to Automated Electronic Devices

Joshua Kulp and Jason Rogoff

7 Who Gets a Voice at the Table?: Eating and Blessing with Rav Naḥman

Marjorie Lehman

8 Contemporary Criteria for the Declaration of Death

Daniel S. Nevins

9 Big Data Meets the Shulḥan Arukh

Michael Pitkowsky

10 The Joint Bet Din of the Conservative Movement

Mayer E. Rabinowitz

11 Balancing Rabbinic Authority and Personal Freedom in the Modern Age

Avram Israel Reisner and Murray Singerman

12 The Death of Rabbi Eliezer: Bavli Sanhedrin 68a

Jeffrey L. Rubenstein

13 Ve-Shuv Limlakhah u-Shvut : An Older Theoretical Framework

Marcus Mordecai Schwartz

14 From Confidence to Confusion: Structure and Meaning in Psalm 27

Benjamin D. Sommer

15 Elucidating Talmudic suryaqe -an Exercise in Talmudic Lexicography

Shamma Friedman

16 Open Ye the Gates: Procedure for Returning the Torah to the Ark

Joseph H. Prouser

17 היגיון ולשון: התפתחותה של סוגית ״אתי דיבור ומבטל דיבור״

נח בנימין ביקרט

18 תשובה בעניין ביקורת המקרא

דוד גולינקין

19 עיון בסוגיית ״הוא לפדות ובנו לפדות״ (בכורות מט ע״ב)

י״ש מילגראם

20 רבי משה יהודה עבאס-חכם שנשכח: על קורותיו וכתביו שטרם ראו אור

שמואל גליק

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-42046-0

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004420465 DOI