The essays in this volume reflect the author's lifelong interest in
the history of halakhah. What stimulated change, and why? What
happened when strong forces impinged on halakhic observance and
communities had to adapt to new circumstances? The volume opens
with a brief description of the dramatis personae who figure
throughout the essays: Rashi and the Tosafists. Further essays
discuss halakhic commentaries and their authors; usury,
moneylending, and pawnbroking; Gentile wine; and the self-image of
the Ashkenazic community. Throughout, Haym Soloveitchik shows that
the line between adaptation and deviance is a fine one, and that
where a society draws that line is revelatory of its values and its
self-perception. Many of the essays presented here are already well
known in the field; two are completely new. Most of those
previously published have been updated, and the major essay on
pawnbroking has been significantly expanded.
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