A Tree of Life Diversity, Flexibility and Creativity in Jewish Law [Second Edition]

Jacobs, Louis/ Schorsch, Ismar

ISBN 10: 187477448X / ISBN 13: 9781874774488

Published by Littman Library of Jewish, 2000

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2nd sub edition. 311 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Tree of Life Diversity, Flexibility and Creativity in Jewish Law [Second Edition]
• Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 187477448X
• ISBN 13: 9781874774488
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.51 kilograms

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Synopsis

This study of the Jewish legal system (the Halakhah) demonstrates that the law embraces every corner of life.

About the Author

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.