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...

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

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

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

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

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...

refers to kosher milk whose milking was observed by an observant Jew. The takkanah of chalav Yisrael, which originates in the Mishnah and Talmud, was instituted...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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)...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...