Contemporary Halakhic Problems, Vol. 1 (Library of Jewish Law and Ethics)

Bleich, David J.

ISBN 10: 0870684507 / ISBN 13: 9780870684500

Published by KTAV Publishing House, 1989

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Contemporary Halakhic Problems, Vol. 1 (Library of Jewish Law and Ethics)
• Publisher: KTAV Publishing House
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870684507
• ISBN 13: 9780870684500
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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Synopsis

This series is an outstanding example of how normative Halakhah engages and grapples with modern issues that arise in the modern age. Rabbi Bleich, in his remarkable erudition of classical and modern Jewish sources, mastery of the American legal system, and ability to write with great clarity and precision, tackles the most controversial and pressing modern issues from a halakhic perspective. Volume 1 of this influential series addresses: What is the Jewish perspective of abortion? What are the halakhic criteria of death? Is it permitted to rebuild the Temple in the modern day? How can the Agunah problem be resolved? What is the halakhic perspective of the Ethiopian Jews? These and many more issues are carefully and meticulously addressed, and this volume has become a twentieth-century classic reference guide for the scholar and layman alike.

About the Author

J.David Bleich is a Rosh Yeshiva and the Rosh Kollel Le-Hora ah at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Professor of Law at the Benjamin N.Cardozo School of Law and Herbert and Florence Tenzer Professor of Jewish Law and Ethics at Yeshiva University. He is the author of many books, among them Judaism and Healing, Providence in the Philosophy of Maimonides, Bircas ha-Chammah, and is editor of With Perfect Faith and co-editor of Jewish Bioethics.