A beth din (Hebrew: בית דין, romanized: Bet Din, lit. 'house of judgment', [bet ˈdin], Ashkenazic: beis din, plural: batei din) is a rabbinical court...

The av beit din (Hebrew: אָב בֵּית דִּין, romanized: ʾāḇ bēṯ din, lit. 'chief of the court, chief justice'), abbreviated abd (אב״ד avad), was the second-highest-ranking...

Conversion". Chabad.org. "May a Convert Serve on a Bet Din for Conversion?". May a Convert Serve on a Bet Din for Conversion? ~ Hirhurim - Musings. 2009-03-22...

(unless there exists an extraordinary physical or emotional hazard); a valid Bet Din (a dialogue with three knowledgeable Jews, at least one of whom is a rabbi)...

(Rt-2.4) formulated by him and his bet din ("court [of] law") received the approval of even the heavenly bet din (Babylonian Talmud Makkot 23b; Yerushalmi...

majority vote of the Joint bet din, comprising nine rabbinic scholars. Upon their authorization of the process, the bet din may issue a certificate of...

Shulchan Aruch). In 1989, Willig led a Bet Din that heard allegations of abuse by Rabbi Baruch Lanner. The Bet Din found Lanner guilty of three minor charges...

witnesses present before the bet din. In the first case the following day became the new moon; in the second case the bet din alone performed the sanctification...

studies in Prague. He may have received the hattarat hora'ah from the Prague bet din, composed of Rabbis Rapoport, Samuel Freund, and E. L. Teweles, or from...

The London Beth Din (LBD) is the Ashkenazi Beth Din of the United Synagogue, the largest Ashkenazi synagogal body in London, England. In its capacity...

join the Troyes Beth din (rabbinical court). He also began answering halakhic questions. Upon the death of the head of the Bet din, Zerach ben Abraham...

Lieberman, that stipulates that divorce will be adjudicated by a modern bet din (rabbinic court) in order to prevent the problem of the agunah, a woman...

he was appointed as registrar at the bet din (rabbinical court) of Fez, and then as a rabbi and head of the bet din in 1704, a post which he held for another...

In his forty-fourth year he became associated with his father as "av bet din," and with him delivered many joint decisions. According to Sefer HaKabbalah...

Jerusalem Agunot Conference, Mayer Rabinowitz, the Chairman of the Joint Bet Din of the Conservative Movement, explained the four approaches taken by leaders...

like prosecutors and defendants to the right and left of a judge in a bet din. Judaism interprets the visions symbolically, rather than as literal descriptions...

Ha-Gaon Rav Yehuda Bachrach), was a rabbi and Talmudist. He served as av bet din of Sejny, Suwałki Governorate. Judah Bachrach was born in Lithuania around...

Tunisian rabbi who was chief rabbi of Tunisia and was a member of the Bet din of Tunisia. At the end of his life, he moved to the Holy Land, dying in...

1839. The same year he was appointed ab bet din of the Portuguese synagogue of Amsterdam, and in 1852 ab bet din and preacher of that synagogue, Aron Mendes...

writer from Sarajevo, Bosnia. He served as Rosh Yeshiva and head of a Bet Din in that city, and lived in Jerusalem towards the end of his life. Pinso...

Sephardi rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and Orthodox halachist. He is the Av Beit Din (head of the rabbinical court) of Mekor Haim in Queens, New York, and a prominent...

moved to Machane Yehuda. He was the head of the Chevrah Kadisha and the Av bet din (rabbinical court head) of the Sephardic community of Jerusalem. Shloush...

of the ab bet din and the ḥakam, Simeon issued an order to the effect that the honors formerly bestowed alike upon the nasi and the ab bet din were henceforth...

Teḥillat divre Shmuel, commentary on the Targum of Esther (Prague, 1594), Bet din shel Shmuel (Lublin, 1606), commentary on Rashi to Esther and Ruth and...

president) and Av Beit Din (אָב בֵּית דִּין‎, "chief of the beth din"), respectively. After this period, the positions nasi and av bet din remained, but they...

In 1751 the London congregation requested him to accept the post of ab bet din, his colleagues being Isaac de Valle and Jacob Coronel. A few years afterward...

of Jesse, declaring upon the authority of Samuel, the prophet, and his bet din (court of justice), that the law excluding the Ammonite and Moabite from...

Community of London and in 1980 was Av Bet Din. In 1998, he was appointed Dayan of the Dutch Sephardi Beth Din. He was appointed as Hakham of the Spanish...

Nathanson, head of the local bet din, Schmelkes was hailed in his youth as a brilliant talmudic student. He served as head of the bet din in a number of towns...

the register of births, marriages, deaths. Chronicle of a community. ↑2 Bet-Din i.e. common court. They deliberated together and decided together, until...