A takkanah (Hebrew: תקנה, romanized: taqqānā, plural takkanot) translated as 'improvement', is a major legislative enactment within halakha, the normative...

Note that takkanot (plural of takkanah) in general do not affect or restrict observance of Torah mitzvot. (Sometimes takkanah refers to either gezeirot or...

paper as a responsum, but the committee voted instead to consider it as a takkanah, requiring 13 votes for adoption.) An important difference between Conservative...

"until the end of time". The takkanah was directed against gentiles of no historical Jewish ancestry. But the takkanah has been applied to all conversions...

rabbinic laws (mitzvot derabbanan). Types of rabbinic laws include the takkanah and the gezeirah. Medieval rabbis discussed the question of why a Jew should...

view prior to takkanah on kohen marriages.) Isaac Klein Responsa and Halakhic Studies, p. 22–26. (Conservative view prior to takkanah on kohen marriages...

Galilee, early in the seventeenth century, adopted an rabbinic ordinance ("takkanah") invalidating any will not made in the presence of the ַParnas; this had...

CJLS decisions may also result in a legislative decree or takkanah. Besides responsa and takkanah, the CJLS creates several other literary sources. For instance...

century, and the Council of Four Lands found it necessary to enact (1607) a takkanah ("decree") against shatnez, especially warning women not to sew woolen...

Additionally, if the surviving brother is married, Ashkenazim, who follow the takkanah of Gershom ben Judah abolishing polygamy, would be compelled to perform...

he states that he borrowed and repaid it. Mitzvah § Rabbinical mitzvot Takkanah Talmudical hermeneutics Promising Justice: Derrida with Jewish Jurisprudence...

often cite the manner in which the sages of old used rabbinic statutes (Takkanah) that enabled the bypassing of prohibitions in the Pentateuch, like the...

"Rabbinical Courts: Modern Day Solomons," 6 Colum J.L. & Soc. Probs. 49 (1970). "TaḲḲanah". JewishEncyclopedia.com. Archived from the original on January 8, 2017...

Din (rabbinical court) of Fez. His writings deal with takkanot (sing. takkanah), exegesis and kabbalah. Some of the Rav's exegesis writtings have been...

child born of incest (Mamzer) and there was even and there was even a Takkanah against a man calling another a Mamzer or illegitimate.... See Loewe, 11...

family and household duties. Rabbeinu Gershom instituted a rabbinic decree (takkanah) prohibiting polygyny among Ashkenazic Jews. At the time, Sephardic and...

shop and a separate cemetery. This state of affairs was endorsed by a takkanah (rabbinic decree) signed in July 1741 between the great rabbis Abraham...

within the Syrian community as the "edict" or "proclamation" (in Hebrew, takkanah). Every 20 years or so, the edict is reaffirmed by all leaders and rabbis...

Jewish community of Djerba, the consumption of locusts was forbidden by a takkanah of Rabbi Aharon Perez in the mid-18th century. According to his letter...

in manuscript. The origin of the name is the Talmud, talking about the Takkanah of Bishul Yisrael. "If Yisrael have put meat on charcoals and goy came...

the change of name for the benefit of a patient is in conformity with a taḳḳanah of the Geonim. The new name for the patient is selected from the Bible...

Takkanah that would uproot a Torah prohibition if passed. Under the CJLS rules, once a majority of the committee found a responsum to be a Takkanah,...

in prayer. In 1973, the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards passed a takkanah (ruling) allowing women to count in a minyan equally with men. Also in...

afforded by the "resolution of the meeting", in Spanish called tecana (from takkanah (תקנה), a Hebrew word that, like sanedrín, has been incorporated into Spanish)...

both issues and possible solutions, including the possibility of a modern takkanah (religious legislative enaction), to empower the Chief Rabbinate of Israel...

custom. Thus, Ashkenazic Jews who live in Christian nations accepted a takkanah (a rabbinic law not deriving from the Talmud) banning polygamy in c. 1000...

lawsuit, in Hebrew and Judæo-German (London, 1774); Tokaḥat le-Shobabim we-Taḳḳanah le-Shabim (Admonition for Transgressors and Rehabilitation for the Repentant)...

Conference of American Rabbis, 2010. (application of a revision of a ruling, takkanah, on produce from the fourth year to the question of whether a Reform synagogue...

without full chuppah and kiddushin. ..." The CJLS effectively passed a takkanah ruling that women may be counted as witnesses in all areas of Jewish law...

the Emile Zola Chair for Human Rights and the Founding Director of the Takkanah LL.M. program in Human Rights at the Striks School of Law. Since 2017 she...