A takkanah (Hebrew: תקנה, romanized: taqqānā, plural takkanot) translated as 'improvement', is a major legislative enactment within halakha, the normative...
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Note that takkanot (plural of takkanah) in general do not affect or restrict observance of Torah mitzvot. (Sometimes takkanah refers to either gezeirot or...
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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...
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"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...
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rabbinic laws (mitzvot derabbanan). Types of rabbinic laws include the takkanah and the gezeirah. Medieval rabbis discussed the question of why a Jew should...
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view prior to takkanah on kohen marriages.) Isaac Klein Responsa and Halakhic Studies, p. 22–26. (Conservative view prior to takkanah on kohen marriages...
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CJLS decisions may also result in a legislative decree or takkanah. Besides responsa and takkanah, the CJLS creates several other literary sources. For instance...
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Halukka (section Takkanah of 1625)
Galilee, early in the seventeenth century, adopted an rabbinic ordinance ("takkanah") invalidating any will not made in the presence of the ַParnas; this had...
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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...
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Additionally, if the surviving brother is married, Ashkenazim, who follow the takkanah of Gershom ben Judah abolishing polygamy, would be compelled to perform...
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he states that he borrowed and repaid it. Mitzvah § Rabbinical mitzvot Takkanah Talmudical hermeneutics Promising Justice: Derrida with Jewish Jurisprudence...
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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...
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"Rabbinical Courts: Modern Day Solomons," 6 Colum J.L. & Soc. Probs. 49 (1970). "TaḲḲanah". JewishEncyclopedia.com. Archived from the original on January 8, 2017...
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Din (rabbinical court) of Fez. His writings deal with takkanot (sing. takkanah), exegesis and kabbalah. Some of the Rav's exegesis writtings have been...
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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...
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family and household duties. Rabbeinu Gershom instituted a rabbinic decree (takkanah) prohibiting polygyny among Ashkenazic Jews. At the time, Sephardic and...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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)...
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both issues and possible solutions, including the possibility of a modern takkanah (religious legislative enaction), to empower the Chief Rabbinate of Israel...
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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...
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lawsuit, in Hebrew and Judæo-German (London, 1774); Tokaḥat le-Shobabim we-Taḳḳanah le-Shabim (Admonition for Transgressors and Rehabilitation for the Repentant)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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