A Tree of Life by Louis Jacobs

A Tree of Life by Louis Jacobs

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In this study of how the Halakhah (the Jewish legal system) embraces each of life's situations, the author demonstrates that the Halakhists, influenced by their diverse cultural backgrounds, sought throughout the ages to maintain the flexibility of the law.

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A Tree of Life by Louis Jacobs

This study of the Jewish legal system (the Halakhah) demonstrates that the law embraces every corner of life.
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.
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ISBN 13 9780197100394
ISBN 10 0197100392
Title A Tree of Life
Author Louis Jacobs
Series The Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Liverpool University Press
Year published 1982-09-01
Number of pages 344
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