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"The present edition and translation of the rabbinic work Pesiqta Rabbati is a critical Hebrew edition, including a modern English translation on facing pages. Pesiqta Rabbati contains rabbinic homilies for Jewish Holy Days and special Sabbaths."--

Midrash. --- Pesikta rabbati. --- liturgy. --- rabbinics. --- religion.

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Coherent Judaism begins by excavating the theologies within the Torah and tracing their careers through the Jewish Enlightenment of the 18th century. Any compelling, contemporary Judaism must cohere as much as possible with traditional Judaism. The challenge is that over the past two centuries, our understandings of both the Torah and nature have radically changed. Nevertheless, much Jewish wisdom can be translated into a contemporary idiom that not only coheres with what we know about our world but also enriches our lives as individuals and within our communities.Coherent Judaism explains why pre-modern Judaism opted to privilege consensus around Jewish behavior (halakhah) over belief. The stresses of modernity have conspired to reveal the incoherence of that traditional approach. In our post-Darwinian and post-Holocaust world, theology must be able to withstand the challenges of science and history. Traditional Jewish theologies have the resources to meet those challenges. Coherent Judaism concludes by presenting a philosophy of halakhah that is faithful to the covenantal aspiration to live long on the land that the Lord, our God, has given us.

Judaism. --- Jews --- Religions --- Semites --- Religion --- Creation. --- Environmentalism. --- Halakhah. --- Jewish Enlightenment. --- Jewish thought. --- Kabbalah. --- Philosophy. --- Post-Holocaust Theology. --- Rabbinics. --- Religion and Science.

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This book illuminates important issues faced by Orthodox Judaism in the modern era by relating the life and times of Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg (1859–1935). In presenting Yudel Rosenberg’s rabbinic activities, this book aims to show that Jewish Orthodoxy could serve as an agent of modernity no less than its opponents. Yudel Rosenberg’s considerable literary output will demonstrate that the line between “secular” and “traditional” literature was not always sharp and distinct. Rabbi Rosenberg’s kabbalistic works will shed light on the revival of kabbala study in the twentieth century. Yudel Rosenberg’s career in Canada will serve as a counter-example to the often-expressed idea that Hasidism exercised no significant influence on the development of American Judaism at the turn of the twentieth century.

Cabala --- Hasidism --- Orthodox Judaism --- Rabbis --- Study and teaching --- History --- Rozenberg, Yehudah Yudl, --- Canada. --- Hasidism. --- Kabbala. --- Modern Jewish History. --- North America. --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Poland. --- Yiddish. --- biography. --- community. --- culture. --- folk medicine. --- law. --- legends. --- literature. --- mishnah. --- modernity. --- mysticism. --- rabbinics. --- religion. --- talmud. --- twentieth century.

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One of the most basic questions for any legal system is that of methodology: how one interprets, analyzes, weighs and applies a mass of often competing legal rules, precedents, practices, customs, and traditions to reach final determinations and practical guidance about the correct legal-prescribed course of action in any given situation. Questions of legal methodology raise not only practical concerns, but theoretical and philosophical ones as well. We expect law to be more than the arbitrary result of a given decision maker’s personal preferences, and so we demand that legal methodologies to be principled as well as practical. These issues are especially acute in religious legal systems, where the stakes are raised by concerns for respecting not just human, but divine law. Despite this, the major scholars and codifiers of halakhah, or Jewish law, have only rarely explicated their own methods for reaching principled legal decisions. This book explains the major jurisprudential factors driving the halakhic jurisprudence of Rabbi Yehiel Mikhel Epstein, twentieth century author of the Arukh Hashulchan—the most comprehensive, seminal, and original modern restatement of Jewish law since Maimonides. Reasoning inductively from a broad review of hundreds of rulings from the Orach Chaim section of the Arukh Hashulchan, the book teases out and explicates ten core principles of halakhic decision-making that animate Rabbi Epstein’s halakhic decision-making. Along the way, it compares the Arukh Hashulchan methodology to that of the Mishna Berura. This book will help any reader understand important methodological issues in both Jewish and general jurisprudence.

Jewish law --- Codification. --- Interpretation and construction. --- Epstein, Jehiel Michael ben Aaron Isaac, --- Arukh HaShulhan. --- Custom. --- Halakhic Rules. --- Jewish Law. --- Judaism. --- Legal Models. --- Legal Opinions. --- Maimonides. --- Methodology. --- Mishnah Berurah. --- Mysticism. --- Orach Chayim. --- Pragmatism. --- Rabbi Yechiel Mikhel Epstein. --- Rabbinics. --- Resolution. --- Sabbath observance. --- Superogatory Religious Conduct. --- Talmud. --- Temporal Rationalization. --- biblical text. --- festival celebrations. --- halakha. --- legal principles. --- minhag. --- piety. --- prayer. --- tradition. --- Social sciences --- Maimonides --- Rabbi Yehiel Mikhel Epstein --- Arukh Hashulcha --- Judaism --- halakhah --- legal methodology --- Social Science / Jewish Studies

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Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? This improbable question, first advanced by anti-Jewish Christian polemicists, is the point of departure for this wide-ranging exploration of gender and Jewishness in Jewish thought. With a lively command of a wide range of Jewish sources-from the Bible and the Talmud to the legal and philosophical writings of the Middle Ages to Enlightenment thinkers and modern scholars-Shaye J. D. Cohen considers the varied responses to this provocative question and in the process provides the fullest cultural history of Jewish circumcision available.

Jews --- Rabbinical literature --- Women in rabbinical literature. --- Circumcision --- Berit milah --- Identity, Jewish --- Jewish identity --- Jewishness --- Jewish law --- Jewish nationalism --- Women in the Talmud --- Berit mila --- Berith --- Berith milah --- Bris --- Briss --- Brit periah --- Brith --- Periah --- Judaism --- Identity. --- History and criticism. --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- History. --- Ethnic identity --- Race identity --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Customs and practices --- absence of circumcision. --- bekhor shor. --- benediction. --- benet. --- berakhot. --- bible. --- blessing. --- ceremony. --- circumcision. --- cultural history. --- doctrine. --- femininity. --- feminism. --- gender roles. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- jewish circumcision. --- jewish life. --- jewish women. --- jewish. --- judaica. --- judaism. --- nonfiction. --- orthodoxy. --- rabbinics. --- religion. --- religious belief. --- religious practices. --- religious women. --- rite. --- ritual. --- talmud. --- theology. --- torah. --- tradition. --- women and religion.