The Codification of Jewish Law and an Introduction to the Jurisprudence of the Mishna Berura

Broyde, Michael J; Bedzow, Ira

ISBN 10: 1618114514 / ISBN 13: 9781618114518

Published by Academic Studies Press, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Codification of Jewish Law and an Introduction to the Jurisprudence of the Mishna Berura
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1618114514
• ISBN 13: 9781618114518
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Nils Roemer (PhD Columbia University, USA) is a professor of history and the Stan and Barbara Rabin Professor in Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA. Roemer's research interests lie in the fields of modern and Jewish history, with a specific emphasis on German-Jewish history. He has a particular interest in cultural intellectual history. He is the author of the recent books Jewish Scholarship and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Between History and Faith (2005) and German City Jewish Memory: The Story of Worms (2010). He is also co-editor of many publications, including German History from the Margins (2006); Crossing the Atlantic: Travel and Travel Writing in Modern Times (2011); and Longing, Belonging, and the Making of Jewish Consumer Culture (2011).