A Tree of Life: Diversity, Flexibility and Creativity in Jewish Law by Louis Jacobs
This study of the Jewish legal system (the Halakhah) demonstrates that the law embraces every corner of life.
A Tree of Life
A Tree of Life
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In this study of how the Halakhah (the Jewish legal system) embraces each of life's situations, the author demonstrates that the Halakhists, influenced by their diverse cultural backgrounds, sought throughout the ages to maintain the flexibility of the law.
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About Louis Jacobs
Louis Jacobs, founding rabbi of the New London Synagogue, was a renowned scholar with an international reputation as a lecturer. He was the author of The Jewish Religion: A Companion (1995) and of many other distinguished books, several of them published by the Littman Library, including Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1999), Hasidic Prayer (paperback 1993), and Theology in the Responsa (paperback 2005), as well as an edition and translation of Zevi Hirsch Eichenstein's Turn Aside from Evil and Do Good (1995). He died in 2006.
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GOR008528710
9780197100394
0197100392
A Tree of Life: Diversity, Flexibility and Creativity in Jewish Law by Louis Jacobs
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Liverpool University Press
19820901
344
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