Hocking: The Rabbinic Idea of Leisure (original) (raw)

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Review of Saiman, Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law Cover Page

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Chaim N. Saiman. Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law. Library of Jewish Ideas 13. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. xiv + 296 pp Cover Page

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The Sages and the World: Categorizing Culture in Early Rabbinic Law Cover Page

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The Sabbath, the Synagogue, and Leisure Culture: Jewish Tradition and Modernity Cover Page

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Review of Chaim Saiman, Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law (Princeton University Press, 2018) Cover Page

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Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law Cover Page

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Introduction to special issue: ethics and leisure Cover Page

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Halakha and Custom, or Halakha and Misconceptions? A Partial Critique of an Article/Lecture by R. Chaim Navon (translated by R. David Strauss) Cover Page

Legal Floors and Moral Ceilings: A Jewish Understanding Of Law and Ethics

2002

This paper analyzes the relationship of formal halakhah to Jewish ethical values, arguing for the necessity of extra-legal hesed, identified as autonomous action above and beyond the requirement of law ('lifnim mishurat hadin'). On halakhic, theological and philosophic grounds, the essay attempts to refute the theory of hard halakhic positivism, which maintains that formal halakhah constitutes the sole legitimate constraint upon human conduct and denies room in Judaism for moral demands advanced by conscience. Th e Ed ah J ou rn al The Edah Journal 2:2 Edah, Inc. © 2002 Tammuz 5762 IN QU IR ES IN J EW IS H ET HI CS

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Literary means as a tool for Halakhic expression.pdf

Many Talmudic discussions include a literary work in the course of the passage. These works focus on halakhic dilemmas; however they do not simply provide a ruling, but constitute full blown literary works. Usually halakhic examination and research ignore these stories. What is their purpose? Are they part of the halakhic discourse? Do they carry any weight in deciding the Halakhah? In this article I wish to clarify the unique character of these stories in the context of halakhic rulings, and I will discuss them as a case study for the essence of Halakhah as an event. I maintain that these stories reflect emotions and happenings that are an integral part of the halakhic event, and that they are meant to be a part of the considerations in making a halakhic ruling. Thus I wish to see a literary genre as a genre that expresses a halakhic happening, that is meant to be an integral part of the considerations for halakhic decision-making. Thus I shall consider the vitality of the Halakhah that operates not only as a normative apparatus with clear-cut and precise laws, but also as an apparatus aware of event narratives and sensitive to the changing contexts of the halakhic event.

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