A Tree of Life
Diversity, Flexibility and Creativity in Jewish Law
Published on 1. September 1982
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-0-19-710039-4 (ISBN)
Description
This study of the Jewish legal system (the Halakhah) demonstrates that the law embraces every corner of life.
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Series
Edition
1
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
675 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-710039-4 (9780197100394)
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Person
Louis Jacobs, founding rabbi of the New London Synagogue, was a renowned scholar with an international reputation as a lecturer. He was the author of The Jewish Religion: A Companion (1995) and of many other distinguished books, several of them published by the Littman Library, including Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1999), Hasidic Prayer (paperback 1993), and Theology in the Responsa (paperback 2005), as well as an edition and translation of Zevi Hirsch Eichenstein's Turn Aside from Evil and Do Good (1995). He died in 2006.