• Responsa (plural of Latin responsum, 'answer') comprise a body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed...
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  • The history of responsa in Judaism (Hebrew: שאלות ותשובות, Sephardic: She'elot Utshuvot, Ashkenazic: Sheilos Utshuvos, usually shortened to שו"ת Shu"t)...
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  • Geonim (section Responsa)
    the decisions and responsa of their predecessors, whose sayings and traditions were generally regarded as authoritative. These responsa of the later geonim...
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    Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, Moravia and even from Asia Minor. Aderet's responsa to Moravia in the year 1255 represent the earliest ever recorded evidence...
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  • rabbis at the local level. Conservative authorities produced voluminous Responsa literature. Conservative Jewish thinkers take the position that halakha...
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    Rashi (section Responsa)
    Rashi's responsa and halakhic decisions are extant. Although some may find contradictory to Rashi's intended purpose for his writings, these responsa were...
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    Shulchan Aruch Levush Malchut Minchat Chinuch Mishnah Berurah Mishneh Torah Responsa literature Sefer ha-Chinuch Sefer Hamitzvot Sefer Mitzvot Gadol Shulchan...
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  • S2CID 45182735. Ibn Abi-Zimra, David (1749). David Ashkenazi (ed.). The Responsa of the Radbaz (in Hebrew). Vol. 1. Venice., s.v. Part II, responsum # 653...
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  • and reference materials. The very first such database was the Bar Ilan Responsa Project, which began in 1963 at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, migrated...
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    Papinian (redirect from Responsa Papiniani)
    include: Quaestiones in 37 books (written before 198 CE); nineteen books of Responsa (written sometime between 204 CE and his death); two books, the Definitiones...
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  • Lecithocera responsa is a moth in the family Lecithoceridae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is found in Mumbai, India. Savela, Markku,...
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  • has written prolifically on Ginzberg and published a collection of his responsa. Ginzberg's knowledge made him the expert to defend Judaism both in national...
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  • 000 responsa, of which only 77 have been preserved. These show his insight and his rationalistic method of treating halakhic material. His responsa were...
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  • Oshry buried his responsa in the ground. After the war, he retrieved them, and in 1959, he published some of the Hebrew responsa under the title She'eilos...
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  • halakha) or simply a "psak". Piskei halakha are generally recorded in the responsa literature. Poskim play an integral role in Orthodox Judaism. Generally...
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    Shulchan Aruch (category Rabbinic legal texts and responsa)
    responsa, ch.9 Responsa Chavas Yair chapter 165 who ascribes to Karo's rulings the status of issues already settled by the mishna. See also responsa Tzemach...
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  • Responsa of the Geonim (Hebrew: תשובות הגאונים) are responsa written by rabbis of the Geonic period in response to questions addressed to them. In the...
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    already common when he was growing up in Miami in the 1970s. In 1979, the Responsa Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis addressed the Reform...
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    Feinstein wrote approximately 2,000 responsa on a wide range of issues affecting Jewish practice in the modern era. Some responsa can also be found in his Talmudic...
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    earlier sources that practiced this leniency, including erasing lenient responsa from newly published books. Or Zarua (13th century) wrote that "our rabbis...
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  • Ritmo, Ritual e Responsa – Ao Vivo (Portuguese for "Rhythm, Ritual and Responsibility – Live") is the fifth DVD by Brazilian alternative rock band Charlie...
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  • and many of his responsa have been preserved in the geonic collections and in the works containing the earlier decisions. His responsa are similar to the...
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  • D. Pines published fifty new responsa from manuscript. Many more of his responsa remain unpublished. Colon's responsa are among the classic productions...
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  • Rabbi Meshullam ben Kalonymus (Hebrew: משולם בן קָלוֹנִימוּס also known as Rabbeinu Meshullam, Meshullam the Great, Meshullam the Roman and also spelled...
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    Naghrillah. Hai ben Sherira's chief claim to recognition rests on his numerous responsa, in which he gives decisions affecting the social and religious life of...
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  • all aspects of the Jewish tradition—Bible commentaries, codes of law, responsa, mystical and ethical tracts, and collections of sermons are examples of...
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    referred to as responsa (Hebrew Sheelot U-Teshuvot). Over time, as practices develop, codes of halakha are written that are based on the responsa; the most...
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    Academy of Sura in Lower Mesopotamia in the ninth century. He authored many responsa, but his chief work was liturgical. He was the first to arrange a complete...
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    OCLC 1284902315. Duran, Solomon (1998). Moshe Sovel (ed.). Questions & Responsa (Sefer ha-Rashbash) (in Hebrew). Jerusalem: Mekhon or ha-mizraḥ. p. responsum...
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  • on Rashi, the "Meginnei Shelomo" (Amsterdam, 1715), and a collection of responsa, also titled "(Sheeilot uTeshuvot) Pene Yehoshua" (Amsterdam, 1715). A...
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