Building Communities

Mintz, Adam

ISBN 13: 9798887190822

Published by Academic Studies Press, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building Communities
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798887190822
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Jewish law forbids carrying objects between private or public areas on the Sabbath. However, rabbinic authorities deemed carrying permissible within a physical enclosure called an eruv. This book explores the rabbinic debates surrounding the creation of such enclosures in North American cities and examines the evolution of American Orthodox communities from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s. The earliest debates reflect a community with low religious observance and weak ties to local government that relied on European rabbis for authority. By the mid-twentieth century, these rabbinic disputes reveal an established, religiously observant community forming its own traditions.

About the Author

Adam Mintz is a rabbi and scholar in New York. He is the rabbi and founder of Kehilat Rayim Ahuvim, a Modern Orthodox community on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and a member of the Talmud faculty at Maharat, an Orthodox women’s rabbinical seminary. He has lectured and published on a wide variety of topics and focuses on the legal history and culture of the Jewish community. He is married to Sharon and they have three children and two grandchildren.