Responsa in a sentence

The obligation to honor their older brothers temporarily exempts them from the mitzvah to beget children (Responsa maintain that younger brothers are only obliged to honor their firstborn older brother (see Responsa 6:29).

These codes have influenced, and in turn, have been influenced by, the responsa ; History of Responsa thus provides an informative complement to the survey below.

The Radbaz (Responsa 58), also cited by the Debrecener Rav, rules differently.

An Orthodox semicha requires the successful completion of a program encompassing Jewish law and responsa in keeping with longstanding tradition.

Another tendency prevalent among the movement's rabbis, yet again not particular to it, is the adoption of the more lenient positions on the matters at question — though this is not universal, and responsa also took stringent ones not infrequently.

Conservative Judaism has engaged in an in-depth study of homosexuality since the 1990s with various rabbis presenting a wide array of responsa (papers with legal arguments) for communal consideration.

Golinkin has recently published a collection of responsa containing 93 questions answered by Ginzberg.

He redrafted the Union Prayer Book in 1940 to include more old formulae and authored many responsa, though he always stressed compliance was voluntary.

He suggested that women voluntarily commit to pray thrice a day et cetera, and his responsa was adopted.

Individual rabbis are free to decide which responsa to adopt or to develop their own halakhic positions.

In fact it has been shown to be a forgery from the 18th century, and contains controversial decisions which contradict what the Rosh wrote in his (genuine) responsa.

In Simon Greenberg, ed., The Ordination of Women as Rabbis: Studies and Responsa, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1988.

Leipzig, 1868 Internet Archive * Responsa ad calumnias romanas: item supplementum novi testamenti ex sinaitico codice anno 1865 editi.

Liberal Judaism Conservative Judaism Conservative Judaism confers semikhah after the completion of a program in the codes of Jewish law and responsa in keeping with Jewish tradition.

Responsa Pe’er HaDor, 143. As he goes on to say in this letter, even on the Sabbath he would receive members of the community.

The Gaonic responsa literature addresses this issue.

These codes and responsa may differ from each other as regards detail (and reflecting the above philosophical differences, as regards the weight assigned to these).

These responsa were copied and preserved by his students.

This letter was never published among Rabbi Sofer's responsa but rather in the secular journal Kochvei Yitzchok. citation along with letters from Dr. Wertheimer, the chief doctor of the Viennese General Hospital.