Hakol Kol Yaakov
The Joel Roth Jubilee Volume
Published on 11. February 2021
Book
Hardback
565 pages
978-90-04-42045-8 (ISBN)
Description
Hakol Kol Yaakov: The Joel Roth Jubilee Volume contains twenty articles dedicated to Rabbi Joel Roth, written by colleagues and students. Some are academic articles in the general area of Talmud and Rabbinics, while others are rabbinic responsa that treat an issue of contemporary Jewish law. In his career, Joel Roth has been known as a scholar and teacher of Talmud par excellence, and, without question, as the preeminent decisor of Jewish law for the Conservative movement of his generation. In the meticulous style and approach of the Talmud scholarship of his generation, Roth painstakingly and precisely assayed the vast array of rabbinic legal sources, and proceeded to apply these in pedagogy, in scholarship and particularly in the production of contemporary legal responsa. The articles in this volume reflect the unique and integrated voice and vision that Joel Roth has brought to the American Jewish community.
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Language
English
Other
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
957 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-42045-8 (9789004420458)
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Robert A. Harris, Ph.D. (1997) is Professor of Bible at The Jewish Theological Seminary. Dr. Harris is the author of Discerning Parallelism: A Study in Northern French Medieval Jewish Biblical Exegesis (2004), and Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency: Commentaries (2018), and has published widely in the history of medieval Biblical exegesis.
Jonathan S. Milgram, Ph.D. (2007) is Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at The Jewish Theological Seminary; has published articles and reviews in academic journals; and is author of From Mesopotamia to the Mishnah: Tannaitic Inheritance Law in its Legal and Social Contexts (Mohr Siebeck, 2016; paperback : Academic Studies Press, 2019).
Jonathan S. Milgram, Ph.D. (2007) is Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at The Jewish Theological Seminary; has published articles and reviews in academic journals; and is author of From Mesopotamia to the Mishnah: Tannaitic Inheritance Law in its Legal and Social Contexts (Mohr Siebeck, 2016; paperback : Academic Studies Press, 2019).
Content
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
List of Donors
Appreciation
?Arnold M. Eisen, Philip Scheim and Mitchell Cohen
To Our Father
?Ariel Roth, on behalf of the Roth Children
Bibliography of the Writings of Rabbi Joel Roth
?Noah Bickart and Akiva Roth
1 Halakhah, Theology and Psychology: The Case of Maimonides and Obadiah the Proselyte
?Eliezer Diamond
2 Providing References for Schools or Jobs, HM 28:1.2014
?Elliott Dorff and Marc Gary
3 Mikveh and the Sanctity of Being Created Human
?Susan Grossman
4 On the Recitation of "Amen" between Ge'ulah and Tefillah of the Shaharit Service
?Robert A. Harris
5 Nishmat Kol Hai: A Literary and Spiritual Commentary
?Jeff Hoffman
6 Mar'it Ozen: From the Ancient Water-mill to Automated Electronic Devices
?Joshua Kulp and Jason Rogoff
7 Who Gets a Voice at the Table?: Eating and Blessing with Rav Na?man
?Marjorie Lehman
8 Contemporary Criteria for the Declaration of Death
?Daniel S. Nevins
9 Big Data Meets the Shul?an Arukh
?Michael Pitkowsky
10 The Joint Bet Din of the Conservative Movement
?Mayer E. Rabinowitz
11 Balancing Rabbinic Authority and Personal Freedom in the Modern Age
?Avram Israel Reisner and Murray Singerman
12 The Death of Rabbi Eliezer: Bavli Sanhedrin 68a
?Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
13 Ve-Shuv Limlakhah u-Shvut: An Older Theoretical Framework
?Marcus Mordecai Schwartz
14 From Confidence to Confusion: Structure and Meaning in Psalm 27
?Benjamin D. Sommer
15 Elucidating Talmudic suryaqe-an Exercise in Talmudic Lexicography
?Shamma Friedman
16 Open Ye the Gates: Procedure for Returning the Torah to the Ark
?Joseph H. Prouser
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Index
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
List of Donors
Appreciation
?Arnold M. Eisen, Philip Scheim and Mitchell Cohen
To Our Father
?Ariel Roth, on behalf of the Roth Children
Bibliography of the Writings of Rabbi Joel Roth
?Noah Bickart and Akiva Roth
1 Halakhah, Theology and Psychology: The Case of Maimonides and Obadiah the Proselyte
?Eliezer Diamond
2 Providing References for Schools or Jobs, HM 28:1.2014
?Elliott Dorff and Marc Gary
3 Mikveh and the Sanctity of Being Created Human
?Susan Grossman
4 On the Recitation of "Amen" between Ge'ulah and Tefillah of the Shaharit Service
?Robert A. Harris
5 Nishmat Kol Hai: A Literary and Spiritual Commentary
?Jeff Hoffman
6 Mar'it Ozen: From the Ancient Water-mill to Automated Electronic Devices
?Joshua Kulp and Jason Rogoff
7 Who Gets a Voice at the Table?: Eating and Blessing with Rav Na?man
?Marjorie Lehman
8 Contemporary Criteria for the Declaration of Death
?Daniel S. Nevins
9 Big Data Meets the Shul?an Arukh
?Michael Pitkowsky
10 The Joint Bet Din of the Conservative Movement
?Mayer E. Rabinowitz
11 Balancing Rabbinic Authority and Personal Freedom in the Modern Age
?Avram Israel Reisner and Murray Singerman
12 The Death of Rabbi Eliezer: Bavli Sanhedrin 68a
?Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
13 Ve-Shuv Limlakhah u-Shvut: An Older Theoretical Framework
?Marcus Mordecai Schwartz
14 From Confidence to Confusion: Structure and Meaning in Psalm 27
?Benjamin D. Sommer
15 Elucidating Talmudic suryaqe-an Exercise in Talmudic Lexicography
?Shamma Friedman
16 Open Ye the Gates: Procedure for Returning the Torah to the Ark
?Joseph H. Prouser
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Index