1st Edition

The Jewish Law Annual Volume 22

Edited By Benjamin Porat, David C. Flatto Copyright 2024

    Volume 22 of The Jewish Law Annual adds to the growing list of articles on Jewish law that have been published in volumes 1–21 of this series, providing English-speaking readers with scholarly articles presenting jurisprudential, historical, textual and comparative analysis of issues in Jewish law.

    This volume features articles on rabbinic criminal law, tort law, jurisprudence, and judicial practice.

    Jacob ADLER, The Mystery of the Bursting Belly: Divine Punishment in mSanhedrin 9:5

    Hanina BEN MENAHEM, Dworcules, Jewish law, and the Doctrine of Legal Error

    Amy BIRKAN, On the Plaintiff’s Duty to Avoid Harm in Rabbinic Law 

    Yitshak COHEN and Shai FARBER, Third Parties’ Intervention in Jewish Law: New Friends (Amicus) in the Rabbinical Courts Litigation

    Yishai KIEL, Complicity and Accessory, Aiding and Abetting: The Contribution of Jewish Law to the Doctrine of Accomplice Liability

    Asaf YEDIDYA, From Germany to Jerusalem, from Community to State: The Separate Paths Taken by Neo-Orthodox Jurists Abraham Chaim Freimann and Isaac Breuer 

    Book Reviews 

    David B. SCHORR, Yuval Sinai and Benjamin Shmueli, Maimonides and Contemporary Tort Theory

    Norman SOLOMON, Shai Wozner, Legal Thinking in the Lithuanian Yeshivoth: The Heritage and Works of Rabbi Shimon Shkop (Hebrew)

    Style Sheet

    Biography

    Benjamin Porat, Institute for Research in Jewish Law, Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

    David C. Flatto, Institute for Research in Jewish Law, Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.