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The Jewish Law Annual Volume 15 (Hardcover)
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The Jewish Law Annual Volume 15 (Hardcover)
Series: Jewish Law Annual
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This volume presents a selection of articles by acclaimed experts
in their respective areas of Jewish law. A fascinating account of
the status among the Jews of Yemen of the two principal codexes of
Jewish law, Maimonides' Mishne Torah and R. Joseph Caro's Shulhan
Arukh, is presented in a paper by Yosef Tobi. He explains the
historical, social and political background against which
Maimonides' code lost its unrivaled primacy as the authoritative
legal source among the Yemenites. His explanation situates the
Code--Shulhan Arukh rivalry within the context of a broader
tension, that between the unique local baladi rite of the
Yemenites, and the 'imported' but more mainstream shami rite. As
the article notes, despite everything, the former not only managed
to retain some standing, but has, to a degree, begun to regain
ground. Two of the papers consider the work of Israeli scholar H.
Dagan in the area of unjust enrichment, inquiring into the degree
to which Dagan's analysis of the halakhic attitude to unjust
enrichment is in fact correct.; The late Irwin Haut's paper asks
whether the stance of Jewish law on unjust enrichment is as far
from that evinced by American law as Dagan claims; Jonathan Blass's
paper considers whether an inference can be drawn from the laws of
unjust enrichment to the liberal socio-economic vision for society
Dagan attributes to the halakha. The judicial process is the focus
of two other papers. Shimshon Ettinger explores the question of
whether judges who have, by happenstance, witnessed an incident
that subsequently becomes the subject of legal proceedings, can sit
in judgment without hearing the testimony of additional witnesses.
He demonstrates that the classic commentaries on the Talmud are not
in agreement as to the acceptability of witnesses serving as
judges. Steven H. Resnicoff considers the thorny problem of what is
to be done when recourse to lying and deceit in legal proceedings
is the only means by which a just outcome can be secured. Can good
ends justify evil means?; Resnicoff opens his discussion with a
short survey of the views of philosophers such as Augustine and
Kant, before proceeding to a comprehensive account of the many
halakhic discussions on recourse to deceit to procure just outcomes
in civil cases. A survey of the views of the great philosophers
also opens a paper by Yehiel Kaplan on the propriety of using
imprisonment to enforce divorce judgments in Jewish law. He cites
classic philosophical understandings of liberty to contextualize
his thorough account of the position of Jewish law on curtailing
personal freedom by imprisonment as a means of inducing
recalcitrant husbands to agree to release their 'chained wives' (
agunot ). This issue is currently at the top of the agenda for many
feminist groups within Orthodox Judaism, and Kaplan's paper seeks
to maximize the scope for halakhic solutions to this pressing
problem. A chronicle section analyzes American cases that raise
significant Jewish issues, and Israeli decisions in cases where
Jewish law is germane, thereby making the annual a journal of
record. The volume concludes with a survey of recently published
articles and books on Jewish and biblical law.
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