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Contains an introduction to the laws of "Kidushin"

• Attempting a definition
• The rise of the oral law
• Why oral?
• The Mishna
• The Gemara
• Halacha and Aggada (law and lore)
• Who were the rabbis?
• The religion of the rabbis
• Aspects of rabbinic social teaching
• On justice and courts
• The denials of rabbinic teaching
• The enduring worth of the Talmud.

• Introduction
• Legal essentialism
• Hierarchy and exclusivity
• Time and space
• Obligation and authority
• Intent and responsibility
• Retribution and control
• Shifting from theory to practice
• Association and admission
• Covenant and initiation
• Officers and leaders
• Reproof and mediation
• Punishment and exclusion
• Conclusion.

This book offers a novel approach for the study of law in the Judean Desert Scrolls, using the prism of legal theory. Following a couple of decades of scholarly consensus withdrawing from the "Essene hypothesis, " it proposes to revive the term, and suggests employing it for the sectarian movement as a whole, while considering the group that lived in Qumran as the Yahad. It further proposes a new suggestion for the emergence of the Yahad, based on the roles of the Examiner and the Instructor in the two major legal codes, the Damascus Document and the Community Rule. The understanding of Essene law is divided into concepts and practices, in order to emphasize the discrepancy between creed, rhetoric, and practices. The abstract exploration of notions such as time, space, obligation, intention, and retribution, is then compared against the realities of social practices, including admission, initiation, covenant, leadership, reproof, and punishment. The legal analysis yields several new suggestions for the study of the scrolls: first, Amihay proposes to rename the two strands of thought of Jewish law, formerly referred to as "nominalism" and "realism, " with the terms "legal essentialism" and "legal formalism." The two laws of admission in the Community Rule are distinguished as two different laws, one of an association for a group as a whole, the other as an admission of an individual. The law of reproof is proven to be an independent legal procedure, rather than a preliminary stage of prosecution. The methodological division in this study of thought and practice provides a nuanced approach for the study of law in general, and religious law in particular.
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• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Prologue
• Introduction
• 1. The Founding of Agunah Inc.
• 2. Our Initiation
• 3. We Take to the Streets
• 4. Surveying Batei Din
• 5. The Phantom Ketubah
• 6. Extortion: Every Man Has His Price
• 7. When the Recalcitrant Is a Rabbi
• 8. Two Thanksgivings in Parsippany
• 9. Violence and Sexual Abuse
• 10. Conferences
• 11. Child Brides
• 12. The Beit Din That Couldn't
• 13. A Success Story
• 14. Civil Remedies: The New York State Gett Laws, or, Less Than Meets the Eye
• 15. Prenuptial Agreements
• 16. The Rackman Beit Din: A Watershed
• Conclusion
• Glossary
• Pseudonyms
• Bibliography
• Index.

For three decades Susan Aranoff and Rivka Haut have battled to free agunot, Orthodox Jewish women chained to dead marriages because their husbands refuse to give them a gett, a Jewish divorce. These chained women, citizens of modern Western democracies, may be civilly divorced, yet they are forced into rabbinic courts in their quest to obtain a gett. In these rabbinic courts women are subject to financial extortion, pressured to drop charges of domestic violence and paedophilia against their husbands and to concede custody and visitation rights to unfit fathers--all to induce their husbands to free them. Well-versed in the intricacies Jewish divorce law, Aranoff and Haut have counselled thousands of agunot and challenged the Orthodox rabbinate's inaction in the face of the injustices inflicted on these women. Aranoff and Haut take the reader into the rabbinic courts and their ancient, revered legal texts, onto the picket lines against recalcitrant husbands, into American civil divorce courts and legislatures that wrestle with this problem and into the lives of the victimized women and children. The agonies endured by agunot reveal the power of religious law over people's lives even when that law sharply conflicts with modern societies' moral and legal norms.
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For three decades Susan Aranoff and Rivka Haut have battled to free agunot, Orthodox Jewish women chained to dead marriages because their husbands refuse to give them a gett, a Jewish divorce. These chained women, citizens of modern Western democracies, may be civilly divorced, yet they are forced into rabbinic courts in their quest to obtain a gett. In these rabbinic courts women are subject to financial extortion, pressured to drop charges of domestic violence and paedophilia against their husbands and to concede custody and visitation rights to unfit fathers--all to induce their husbands to free them. Well-versed in the intricacies Jewish divorce law, Aranoff and Haut have counselled thousands of agunot and challenged the Orthodox rabbinate's inaction in the face of the injustices inflicted on these women. Aranoff and Haut take the reader into the rabbinic courts and their ancient, revered legal texts, onto the picket lines against recalcitrant husbands, into American civil divorce courts and legislatures that wrestle with this problem and into the lives of the victimized women and children. The agonies endured by agunot reveal the power of religious law over people's lives even when that law sharply conflicts with modern societies' moral and legal norms.
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• Influences of other systems of law on Jewish law and vice versa
• Two settings of laws : the Jewish setting, a religious one, the American setting, a people's law
• The Jewish setting
• The American setting
• Concepts that could help to determine what kind of influence or relation exists between Jewish law and some American constitutional amendments
• Incidence of the Jewish setting in the American setting
• Principles of Jewish law which resemble or which could have influenced some of the American constitutional amendments
• Addendum: The Body of Liberties of 1641 (original text).

• V. 1. Orach Chaim
• v. 2. Yoreh Deah.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. An outline of 'Jewish bioethics'
• 3. Health and healthcare
• 4. Doctor-patient relationship
• 5. The human body
• 6. Fertility and very early prenatal life
• 7. Childbirth and abortion
• 8. Care for premature neonates
• 9. Organ transplantation and the brain death debate
• 10. Terminal care.
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This book presents the discourse in Jewish law and rabbinic literature on bioethical issues, highlighting practical problems in their socio-historical contexts. Yechiel Michael Barilan discusses end-of-life care, abortion, infertility treatments, the brain death debate, and the organ market. Barilan also presents the theology and spirituality of Jewish medical law, the communal responsibility for healthcare, and the charitable sick-care societies that flourished in the Jewish communities until the beginning of the twentieth century.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. An outline of 'Jewish bioethics'
• 3. Health and healthcare
• 4. Doctor-patient relationship
• 5. The human body
• 6. Fertility and very early prenatal life
• 7. Childbirth and abortion
• 8. Care for premature neonates
• 9. Organ transplantation and the brain death debate
• 10. Terminal care.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This book presents the discourse in Jewish law and rabbinic literature on bioethical issues, highlighting practical problems in their socio-historical contexts. Yechiel Michael Barilan discusses end-of-life care, abortion, infertility treatments, the brain death debate, and the organ market. Barilan also presents the theology and spirituality of Jewish medical law, the communal responsibility for healthcare, and the charitable sick-care societies that flourished in the Jewish communities until the beginning of the twentieth century.
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• General essays on Qumran law
• Rabbinic literature and Qumran law
• Pharisees and Sadducees, Essenes, and Qumran
• Halakhic topics
• Theology and apocalypticism

The study of the laws of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the light of ancient rabbinic law, and vice versa, by a master of both corpora, sheds light on their interpretation, their history, and the spiritual stances they bespeak. The thirty-two studies united in this volume, a selection of Joseph M. Baumgarten's work in the three decades that followed the appearance of his Studies in Qumran Law (Brill, 1977), focus on legal concerns, both general and detailed, shared by the Qumran sectarians and the ancient rabbis-concerns that elicited responses that were sometimes similar, sometimes different, even to the extent of arousing polemics. An introductory essay by Lawrence H. Schiffman contextualizes the studies and points out the broader themes to which they relate.
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