Jewish Law

Rabbinic conventions can--following specific guidelines--amend Jewish law.

Rabbinic responses to questions of Jewish law enrich the body of halachic literature.

The writings of Rabbi Yehiel Mekhel Epstein.

The works of Rabbi Abraham Danzig.

The writings of the "Hafetz Hayyim," Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan.

The writings of Solomon Ganzfried.

A survey of the great post-Shulhan Arukh legal authorities.

The rabbis of France and Germany created new genres of halakhic literature.

Alfasi's groundbreaking legal code invited criticism, defense, and supplementation.

Orthodox leaders responded to modernity by producing legal works on a variety of topics, in a variety of genres.

The Conservative Movement's legal texts represent a contemporary attempt to make halakhah relevant and meaningful in a changing world.

Reform Judaism is more halakhic than you think.