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Halakhah in the Making

The Development of Jewish Law from Qumran to the Rabbis

By: Aharon Shemesh

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Halakhah in the Making

The Development of Jewish Law from Qumran to the Rabbis

By: Aharon Shemesh

Halakhah in the Making offers the first comprehensive study of the legal material found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and its significance in the greater history of Jewish religious law (halakhah). Aharon Shemesh's pioneering study revives an issue long dormant in religious scholarship: namely, the relationship between rabbinic law, as written more than one hundred years after the destruction of the Second Temple, and Jewish practice during the Second Temple. The monumental discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Qumran led to the revelation of this missing material and the closing of a two-hundred-year gap in knowledge, allowing work to begin comparing specific laws of the Qumran sect with rabbinic laws. With the publication of scroll 4QMMT-a polemical letter by Dead Sea sectarians concerning points of Jewish law-an effective comparison was finally possible. This is the first book-length treatment of the material to appear since the publication of 4QMMT and the first attempt to apply its discoveries to the work of nineteenth-century scholars. It is also the first work on this important topic written in plain language and accessible to nonspecialists in the history of Jewish law.

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Univ of California Press

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Halakhah in the Making

The Development of Jewish Law from Qumran to the Rabbis

By: Aharon Shemesh

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The Development of Jewish Law from Qumran to the Rabbis

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Legal Documents from the Judean Desert

The Impact of the Shari'a on Bedouin Customary Law

By: Aharon Layish

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Legal Documents from the Judean Desert

The Impact of the Shari'a on Bedouin Customary Law

By: Aharon Layish

This volume presents annotated English translations of 74 awards handed down by tribal arbitrators and other legal documents obtained from the Bedouin of the Judean Desert. The documents address such legal issues as blood and sexual offenses, family disputes, inheritance, private transactions in land and water rights, tribal boundaries, contracts and obligations. The documents, some of which date back to the 19th century, provide vital information on the process of Islamization of the tribal customary law in the precinct of the tribal judge. The facsimile reproductions of the manuscripts are included, rendering direct access to the original documents. The study is intended for students of Islamic law, of customary law and of comparative law, and historians interested in the legal, social and economic history of modern Palestine and Jordan. A linguistic essay, by Dr. Mūsā Shawārbah, based on the Bedouin documents, appears at the end of the study.

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606

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BRILL

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9004185712

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9789004185715

Kaddishel

A Life Reborn

By: Aharon Golub,Bennett W. Golub

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Kaddishel

A Life Reborn

By: Aharon Golub,Bennett W. Golub

Aharon Golub is the kaddishel for his family - the only son upon whose shoulders falls the responsibility to recite the prayer for the dead, the Kaddish, for his parents. And as the kaddishel, he honors his parents by remembering both the joys of his early childhood in Ludvipol and the hatred that sought to destroy Ludvipol, and his childhood. Aharon bears the burden of an entire generation of children who made promises to their parents, promises that are relived at every Yahrzeit, every anniversary of the death of their parents: Never to bask in the luxury of forgetting.

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Devora Publishing

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1932687475

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9781932687477

Islamic Law, Tribal Customary Law and Waqf

Studies in the Legal History of the Modern Middle East and North Africa

By: Aharon Layish

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Islamic Law, Tribal Customary Law and Waqf

Studies in the Legal History of the Modern Middle East and North Africa

By: Aharon Layish

In this collected volume, Aharon Layish demonstrates that legal documents are an essential source for legal and social history. Since the late nineteenth century, Islamic law has undergone tremendous transformations, some of which have strongly affected the basic features of its nature. The changes include the transformation of Islamic law from a jurists’ law to a statutory law; the abolishment of waqf; the Islamization of tribal customary law; the creation of Sudanese legal methodologies strongly inspired by Ṣūfī and Salafī traditions or Western law, and the emergence of an Israeli version of Islamic law.

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648

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BRILL

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9004680926

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9789004680920

Society and Settlement

Jewish Land of Israel in the Twentieth Century

By: Aharon Kellerman

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Society and Settlement

Jewish Land of Israel in the Twentieth Century

By: Aharon Kellerman

This book scrutinizes the interrelationships between Jewish spatial organization and social structure and change in Palestine/Israel. Kellerman analyzes the development of nationwide and regional settlements, and reasons for spatial and territorial choices, such as cooperative villages. He uncovers the extreme differences between the old and the new in Jewish settlement patterns, and discusses the implications for cultural development, economic functions, urban spirit, and international status in evolving Israeli society.

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342

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State University of New York Press

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1438408641

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9781438408644

Sharīʿa and the Islamic State in 19th-Century Sudan

The Mahdī’s Legal Methodology and Doctrine

By: Aharon Layish

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Sharīʿa and the Islamic State in 19th-Century Sudan

The Mahdī’s Legal Methodology and Doctrine

By: Aharon Layish

The Sudanese Mahdī headed a millenarian, revivalist, reformist movement in Islam, strongly inspired by Salafī and Ṣūfī ideas, in late 19th century in an attempt to restore the Caliphate of the Prophet and “Righteous Caliphs” in Medina. As the “Successor of the Prophet”, the Mahdī was conceived of as the political head of the Islamic state and its supreme religious authority. On the basis of his legal opinions, decisions, proclamations and “traditions” attributed to him, an attempt is made to reconstruct his legal methodology consisting of the Qurʾān, sunna, and inspiration (ilhām) derived from the Prophet and God, its origins, and its impact on Islamic legal doctrine, and to assess his “legislation” as an instrument to promote his political, social and moralistic agenda.

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370

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BRILL

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9004313990

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9789004313996

Human Dignity

By: Aharon Barak

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Human Dignity

By: Aharon Barak

An analytical study of human dignity as the humanity of a person, as a constitutional value and a constitutional right.

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399

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Cambridge University Press

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1107090237

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9781107090231

Navigating Through the Storm

Reinventing Education for Postmodern Democracies

By: Aharon Aviram

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Navigating Through the Storm

Reinventing Education for Postmodern Democracies

By: Aharon Aviram

This book aims to systematically tackle the most severe crisis to ever beset Western education systems, which stems from the growing clash between the Platonic-modern civilization—still very much at the core of prevailing education systems—and the postmodern civilization which has become dominant in Western societies in the last generations.

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445

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BRILL

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9087909799

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9789087909796

Rearming Israel

Defense Procurement Through The 1990s

By: Aharon Klieman,Reuven Pedatzur

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Rearming Israel

Defense Procurement Through The 1990s

By: Aharon Klieman,Reuven Pedatzur

This study analyzes the key functions of arms planning and procurement in the ongoing Israeli defence effort. Part I addresses individual constraints placed on the shaping of arms control policy. Part II asks how Israel might best meet its arms needs over the next decade.

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190

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Routledge

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100030907X

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9781000309072

Law and Custom in Hasidism

By: Aharon Ṿerṭhaim

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Law and Custom in Hasidism

By: Aharon Ṿerṭhaim

Despite their importance, works of Hasidism tend to ignore the innovative halakhic aspect of the early hasidic movement. Rabbi Wertheim's book is unique for its emphasis on hasidic practices, Hasidism on the ground, so to speak. From changes in dress to prayers, the establishment of a relationship with the rebbe, and its observance of holidays, the author provides not only detailed and carefully footnoted information, but provides an historical perspective which allows the reader to understand these innovations in context.

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KTAV Publishing House, Inc.

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0881254010

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9780881254013

Rabbinic Perspectives: Rabbinic Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 7–9 January, 2003

By: Steven Fraade,Aharon Shemesh,Ruth Clements

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Rabbinic Perspectives: Rabbinic Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 7–9 January, 2003

By: Steven Fraade,Aharon Shemesh,Ruth Clements

The studies in this volume examine the intersection of the Dead Sea Scrolls with early rabbinic literature. This is a particularly rich area for comparative study, which has not heretofore received sufficient scholarly attention. While some of the contributions in this volume focus on specific comparative case studies, others address far-reaching issues of historical and comparative methodology. Particular attention is paid to questions of the nature of sectarian and rabbinic law, and how each may elucidate the other. These studies model the directions that need to be pursued in future scholarship on the lines of continuity and discontinuity that connect and differentiate these two literary corpora and their respective religious cultures and social structures.

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9047410734

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9789047410737

Laish

A novel

By: Aharon Appelfeld

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Laish

A novel

By: Aharon Appelfeld

A caravan of Jews wanders through Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century on a heartbreaking quest. Spiritual seekers and the elderly, widows and orphans, the sick and the dying, con artists and adventurers, victims of pogroms who have no place else to go–they are all on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but the journey is filled with unexpected detours and unanticipated disaster. Among them is Laish, a fifteen-year-old orphan, through whose eyes we observe the interactions within this ragtag group of dreamers, holy men, misfits, and thieves as they battle with one another, try to stay one step ahead of the gendarmes, and do what little they can to keep up their flagging spirits. With the death of the rabbi who brought the group together, they are now led by men whom Laish refers to as “the dealers”–black-market traders whose motives are questionable but who periodically infuse the group with the money they need to get to the next town. Years pass, tempers start to fray, and the caravan grows smaller as people die or abandon the venture. A brutal winter and typhoid epidemic further decimate the ranks, and the pilgrims have begun to reach the limits of their endurance. The dream of Jerusalem keeps the remnant going, and against all odds they finally arrive–emotionally and physically exhausted–at the port city of Galacz. They see their ship in the harbor, but whether they will actually make it onto that ship is suddenly and tragically thrown into doubt. This magnificent new novel from Aharon Appelfeld (“One of the greatest writers of the age” —The Guardian) resonates with a universality of experience: the will to survive, the struggle to hold on to hope.

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241

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Schocken

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0805241590

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9780805241594

Blooms of Darkness

By: Aharon Apelfeld

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Blooms of Darkness

By: Aharon Apelfeld

A new novel from the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli writer, "Blooms of Darkness" offers a haunting, heartbreaking story of love, loss, and what it means to be human.

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Random House Digital, Inc.

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0805242805

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9780805242805

The Healer

By: Aharon Apelfeld

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The Healer

By: Aharon Apelfeld

Story of a Viennese Jewish businessman whose faith is restored after being snowbound in a faith centered rural village. He returns to Vienna with a renewed sense of faith and tolerance on the eve of World War II where an anti-Semitic atmosphere pervades.

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Grove Press

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0802133576

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9780802133571

The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping

A Novel

By: Aharon Appelfeld

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The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping

A Novel

By: Aharon Appelfeld

A young holocaust survivor tries to create a new life in the newly established state of Israel. Erwin doesn’t remember much about his journey across Europe when the war ended because he spent most of it asleep, carried by other survivors as they emerged from their hiding places or were liberated from the camps and made their way to Naples, where they filled refugee camps and wondered what was to become of them. Erwin becomes part of a group of boys being rigorously trained both physically and mentally by an emissary from Palestine for life in their new home. When he and his fellow clandestine immigrants are released by British authorities from their detention camp near Haifa, they are assigned to a kibbutz, where they learn how to tend the land and speak their new language. But a part of Erwin clings to the past—to memories of his parents, his mother tongue, the Ukrainian city where he was born—and he knows that despite what he is being told, who he was is just as important as who he is becoming. When he is wounded in an engagement with snipers, Erwin spends months trying to regain the use of his legs. As he exercises his body, he exercises his mind as well, copying passages from the Bible in his newly acquired Hebrew and working up the courage to create his own texts in this language both old and new, hoping to succeed as a writer where his beloved, tormented father had failed. With the support of his friends and the encouragement of his mother (who visits him in his dreams), Erwin takes his first tentative steps with his crutches—and with his pen. Once again, Aharon Appelfeld mines personal experience to create dazzling, masterly fiction with a universal resonance.

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0805212612

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Sharīʿa and the Islamic State in 19th-Century Sudan

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Navigating Through the Storm

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Rearming Israel

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Blooms of Darkness

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