Hakol Kol Yaakov: The Joel Roth Jubilee Volume

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-42045-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Hebrew, Band 61, 527 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1065 g

Reihe: Brill Reference Library of Jud

Hakol Kol Yaakov: The Joel Roth Jubilee Volume contains twenty articles dedicated to Rabbi Joel Roth, written by colleagues and students. Some are academic articles in the general area of Talmud and Rabbinics, while others are rabbinic responsa that treat an issue of contemporary Jewish law. In his career, Joel Roth has been known as a scholar and teacher of Talmud par excellence, and, without question, as the preeminent decisor of Jewish law for the Conservative movement of his generation. In the meticulous style and approach of the Talmud scholarship of his generation, Roth painstakingly and precisely assayed the vast array of rabbinic legal sources, and proceeded to apply these in pedagogy, in scholarship and particularly in the production of contemporary legal responsa. The articles in this volume reflect the unique and integrated voice and vision that Joel Roth has brought to the American Jewish community.

Autoren/Hrsg.

A. Harris, Robert

S. Milgram, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Kult, Riten, Zeremonien
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

List of Donors

Appreciation

Arnold M. Eisen, Philip Scheim and Mitchell Cohen

To Our Father

Ariel Roth, on behalf of the Roth Children

Bibliography of the Writings of Rabbi Joel Roth

Noah Bickart and Akiva Roth

1 Halakhah, Theology and Psychology: The Case of Maimonides and Obadiah the Proselyte

Eliezer Diamond

2 Providing References for Schools or Jobs, HM 28:1.2014

Elliott Dorff and Marc Gary

3 Mikveh and the Sanctity of Being Created Human

Susan Grossman

4 On the Recitation of “Amen” between Ge’ulah and Tefillah of the Shaharit Service

Robert A. Harris

5 Nishmat Kol Hai: A Literary and Spiritual Commentary

Jeff Hoffman

6 Mar’it Ozen: From the Ancient Water-mill to Automated Electronic Devices

Joshua Kulp and Jason Rogoff

7 Who Gets a Voice at the Table?: Eating and Blessing with Rav Na?man

Marjorie Lehman

8 Contemporary Criteria for the Declaration of Death

Daniel S. Nevins

9 Big Data Meets the Shul?an Arukh

Michael Pitkowsky

10 The Joint Bet Din of the Conservative Movement

Mayer E. Rabinowitz

11 Balancing Rabbinic Authority and Personal Freedom in the Modern Age

Avram Israel Reisner and Murray Singerman

12 The Death of Rabbi Eliezer: Bavli Sanhedrin 68a

Jeffrey L. Rubenstein

13 Ve-Shuv Limlakhah u-Shvut: An Older Theoretical Framework

Marcus Mordecai Schwartz

14 From Confidence to Confusion: Structure and Meaning in Psalm 27

Benjamin D. Sommer

15 Elucidating Talmudic suryaqe—an Exercise in Talmudic Lexicography

Shamma Friedman

16 Open Ye the Gates: Procedure for Returning the Torah to the Ark

Joseph H. Prouser

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Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert A. Harris, Ph.D. (1997) is Professor of Bible at The Jewish Theological Seminary. Dr. Harris is the author of Discerning Parallelism: A Study in Northern French Medieval Jewish Biblical Exegesis (2004), and Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency: Commentaries (2018), and has published widely in the history of medieval Biblical exegesis.

Jonathan S. Milgram, Ph.D. (2007) is Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at The Jewish Theological Seminary; has published articles and reviews in academic journals; and is author of From Mesopotamia to the Mishnah: Tannaitic Inheritance Law in its Legal and Social Contexts (Mohr Siebeck, 2016; paperback: Academic Studies Press, 2019).