Responsa (plural of Latin responsum, 'answer') comprise a body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed to them. In the modern era, the term is used to describe decisions and rulings made by scholars in historic religious law.
Responsa (plural of Latin responsum, 'answer') comprise a body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed...
The history of responsa in Judaism (Hebrew: שאלות ותשובות, Sephardic: She'elot Utshuvot, Ashkenazic: Sheilos Utshuvos, usually shortened to שו"ת Shu"t)...
the decisions and responsa of their predecessors, whose sayings and traditions were generally regarded as authoritative. These responsa of the later geonim...
Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, Moravia and even from Asia Minor. Aderet's responsa to Moravia in the year 1255 represent the earliest ever recorded evidence...
rabbis at the local level. Conservative authorities produced voluminous Responsa literature. Conservative Jewish thinkers take the position that halakha...
Lecithocera responsa is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is found in Mumbai, India. Savela, Markku,...
000 responsa, of which only 77 have been preserved. These show his insight and his rationalistic method of treating halakhic material. His responsa were...
Shulchan Aruch Levush Malchut Minchat Chinuch Mishnah Berurah Mishneh Torah Responsa literature Sefer ha-Chinuch Sefer Hamitzvot Sefer Mitzvot Gadol Shulchan...
S2CID 45182735. Ibn Abi-Zimra, David (1749). David Ashkenazi (ed.). The Responsa of the Radbaz (in Hebrew). Vol. 1. Venice., s.v. Part II, responsum # 653...
and reference materials. The very first such database was the Bar Ilan Responsa Project, which began in 1963 at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, migrated...
include: Quaestiones in 37 books (written before 198 CE); nineteen books of Responsa (written sometime between 204 CE and his death); two books, the Definitiones...
Rashi's responsa and halakhic decisions are extant. Although some may find contradictory to Rashi's intended purpose for his writings, these responsa were...
on Rashi, the "Meginnei Shelomo" (Amsterdam, 1715), and a collection of responsa, also titled "(Sheeilot uTeshuvot) Pene Yehoshua" (Amsterdam, 1715). A...
and many of his responsa have been preserved in the geonic collections and in the works containing the earlier decisions. His responsa are similar to the...
Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin (1945 – 23 December 2020), author of the responsa Benei Banim, was a Modern Orthodox posek. Yehuda Henkin was born in Pennsylvania...
Oshry buried his responsa in the ground. After the war, he retrieved them, and in 1959, he published some of the Hebrew responsa under the title She'eilos...
perceived as those who caused Germany to lose the war. One of Ginzberg's responsa concerns the use of wine in the Jewish community during the Prohibition...
responsa, ch.9 Responsa Chavas Yair chapter 165 who ascribes to Karo's rulings the status of issues already settled by the mishna. See also responsa Tzemach...
Feinstein wrote approximately 2,000 responsa on a wide range of issues affecting Jewish practice in the modern era. Some responsa can also be found in his Talmudic...
halakha) or simply a "psak". Piskei halakha are generally recorded in the responsa literature. Poskim play an integral role in Orthodox Judaism. Generally...
Academy of Sura in Lower Mesopotamia in the ninth century. He authored many responsa, but his chief work was liturgical. He was the first to arrange a complete...
rabbinical law developed in the Talmud, with fatwas being analogous to rabbinic responsa. According to the Talmud (Tractate Makot), 613 mitzvot are in the Torah...
based on the standard codes of Jewish law, and the responsa literature. The Hebrew term for the responsa is '"She'elot U-Teshuvot"', literally "Questions...
leading posek, rosh yeshiva, chief rabbi, and author of more than 3,000 responsa (halakhic decisions) as well as several scholarly works. The Radbaz was...
D. Pines published fifty new responsa from manuscript. Many more of his responsa remain unpublished. Colon's responsa are among the classic productions...
all aspects of the Jewish tradition—Bible commentaries, codes of law, responsa, mystical and ethical tracts, and collections of sermons are examples of...
Rabbi Meshullam ben Kalonymus (Hebrew: משולם בן קָלוֹנִימוּס also known as Rabbeinu Meshullam, Meshullam the Great, Meshullam the Roman and also spelled...
of Moses Sofer's responsa making no mention of the legal case or of his ruling applying in only one situation. Rather, that responsa makes quite clear...
referred to as responsa (Hebrew Sheelot U-Teshuvot). Over time, as practices develop, codes of halakha are written that are based on the responsa; the most...
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