Rabbinic Authority, Volume 2 The Vision and the Reality, Beit Din Decisions in English, Volume 2

by Warburg, A. Yehuda

• ISBN13: 9789655242133
• ISBN10: 9655242137
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-03-20
• Publisher: Urim Publications

Summary

Volume 2 of the only English books on rabbinic authority
 
In this second volume of Rabbinic Authority, Rabbi Warburg presents new rabbinical court arbitration decisions in English. He is the first rabbinic arbitrator to publish piskei din (decisions) on cases in Jewish civil law. It is important that those who service the institution of a beit din (a Jewish court) know the inner dynamics and reasoning of those who issue rulings. This volume focuses on a number of topics, such as the halakhic identity of an investment broker, the propriety of a civil will, contemporary issues relating to domestic violence, and the role of a rabbinical advocate in the beit din process.

Author Biography

A. Yehuda Warburg has served as a rabbinical judge on various battei din panels in the Hasidic, Modern Orthodox, Sephardic, and Yeshiva communities in the New York–New Jersey metropolitan area. He is a former research fellow at the Institute of Jewish Law at Boston University School of Law. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Tradition and served on the editorial board of the Jewish Law Annual. He is the author of dozens of articles in the areas of jurisprudence, family law, bioethics, contracts, and securities law that address the interface of Halakha and U.S. law. He lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.