Books and Articles
Albeck, Chanoch, Mavo LaTalmudim, Tel Aviv, Dvir Co., 1969, pp. 504–522.
Albeck, Chanoch, “Lekheker HaTalmud,” Tarbiz, 9, 1938, pp. 163–178.
Alon, G., Jews, Judaism and the Classical World, trans. by Israel Abrahams, Jerusalem, Magnes Press, 1977, ch. 5, “On The Halakhot of the Early Sages,” pp. 138–145.
Alon, G., Mehkarim Betoldot Yisrael, (Heb.), HaKibutz Hameuchad Pub. House, 1958, vol. II, pp. 121–147, and particularly at pp. 144–145.
Alter, Robert, Genesis, Translation and Commentary, New York and London, W.W. Norton & Co., 1996.
Amir, Abraham Shaul, Institutions and Titles in Talmudic Literature (Heb.), Jerusalem, Mossad Harav Kook, 1977, pp. 18–37
Amital, Yehuda, “Rebuking a Fellow Jew: Theory and Practice,” in Jacob J. Schacter (ed.), Jewish Tradition and the Non-Traditional Jew, Northvale, NJ, Jason Aronson Inc., 1992, pp. 119–138.
Batzri, Ezra, Dinei Mammonot, Jerusalem, Haktav Institute, 1981, vol. IV, ch. 2, para. 5, footnote 1, at pp. 86–87.
Berman, Saul J., “Adam Hashub: New Light on the History of Babylonian Amoraic Academies,” Dine Israel, 13–14, 1988, pp. 123–154, 174, 183.
Berman, Saul J., “Parashat Shekalim and the Role of the Jewish Preisthood,” in R. Daniel Z. Feldman and Stuart W. Halpern (eds.), From Within the Tent: The Haftarot, New York, Scharf Publication Trust of Yeshiva University Press, 2011, pp. 597–607.
Blidstein, Gerald, “Rabbinic Legislation on Idolatry,” unpublished Doctoral Thesis, Bernard Revel Graduate School, Yeshiva University, 1968, particularly at pp. 122–130.
Breisch, Mordechai Yaakov, Chelkat Yaakov, vol. III, no. 96, Jerusalem, 1950–1965, p. 208.
Breitowitz, Irving A., Between Civil and Religious Law: The Plight of the Agunah in American Society, Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1993, at pp. 5–40.
Broyde, Michael, “Informing on Others for Violating American Law: A Jewish Law View,” available at www.jlaw.com/Articles/mesiralaw2.html, no date. Also published with some modifications as “Informing on Others to a Just Government,” Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society, 41, 2002, pp. 5–46.
Buber, S., Tanhuma Buber, Vilna, 1885, reprinted 1946, New York, Sefer Press, at pp. 9–10
Buber, S., and Shoftim, sec. 1, p. 14a.
Cahn, Edmond N., The Sense of Injustice, New York University Press, 1949, pp. 11–27, at p. 24.
Chajes, Z.H., The Student’s Guide Through the Talmud, trans. by Shachter, Jacob, Feldheim Pub., 2nd edition, 1960, at pp. 97 and 111–117.
Chambers, Marcia, “Ex-Bergman Aide Declines To Talk.” New York Times, April 30, 1975, p. 81.
Daube, David, Collaboration with Tyranny in Jewish Law, London, Oxford University Press, 1965, at pp. 18–39 and 69–83.
DeVries, Benjamin, “Halachic Categories” (Heb.), Bar Ilan Annual, II, 1965, pp. 77–83.
DeVries, Benjamin, Mechkarim Besafrut HaTalmud, Jerusalem, 1968, at pp. 188–193 and 195–196.
Elman, Yaakov, Authority and Tradition: Toseftan Baraitot in Talmudic Babylonia, New York, Yeshiva University Press, 1994, pp. 275–281.
Elman, Yaakov, “Middle Persian Culture and Babylonian Sages: Accommodation and Resistance in the Shaping of Rabbinic Legal Tradition,” in Fonrobert, Charlotte Elisheva and Jaffe, Martin S. (eds.), Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 165–197.
Elon, Menachem, Jewish Law, trans. by Bernard Auerbach and Melvin J. Sykes, Philadelphia, PA, JPS, 1994, vol. III, ch. 32, pp. 1138–1148.
Epstein, J.N., “Fragments of Debei R. Ishmael to Leviticus” (Heb.), in Samuel Krauss and Joseph Klausner (eds.), Festschrift for Samuel Krauss, Jerusalem, R. Mass, 1936, pp. 19–35, at p. 25.
Epstein, J.N., “A Grammar of Babylonian Aramaic” (Heb.), Jerusalem, Magnes Press, 1960, at pp. 61, 63.
Farber, Zev, “Extra-Legal Punishments in Medieval Jewish Courts,” in Yamin Levy (ed.), Mishpetei Shalom, A jubilee Volume in Honor of Rabbi Saul (Shalom) Berman, New York, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School, with Ktav Publishing House, 2010, pp. 191–232, at pp. 216–217.
Fletcher, George P., Loyalty, An Essay on the Morality of Relationships, New York, Oxford University Press, 1993.
Fraenkel, J., Rashi’s Methodology in his Exegesis of the Babylonian Talmud (Heb.), Jerusalem, 1975, at p. 195.
Friedman, Shamma, “Perek HaIsha Rabba,” in Dimitrovsky, H.Z. (ed.), Mechkarim U’Mekorot, New York, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1977, at pp. 283–304, 346 and 378.
Frimer, Dov, “Israel, the Noahide Laws and Maimonides: Jewish-Gentile Legal Relations in Maimonidean Thought,” Jewish Law Association Studies 2, 1986, pp. 89–102.
Gershuni, Yehudah, “Milchemet Mitzvah U’Milchemet Reshut,” Ohr HaMizrach, Tevet 5731, 1971, pp. 104–105.
Ginsburger, M. (ed.), Pseudo Jonathan, Berlin, 1903.
Ginzberg, Louis, Genizah Studies in Memory of Dr. Solomon Schechter (Ginzei Schechter), vol. II, New York, J.T.S., 1929, pp. 127–128, item no. 137.
Goitein, S.D., A Mediterranean Society, vol. II, The Community, Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1971, at pp. 86 and 367–368, 395–402 and 607, n. 25.
Goodblatt, David M., Rabbinic Instruction in Sasanian Babylonia, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1975.
Groner, Tsvi, The Legal Methodology of Hai Gaon, Chico, CA, Scholars Press, 1985, at pp. 118–119.
Gulak, A., Le-Heker Toledot ha-Mishpat ha-Ivri bi-Tekufat ha-Talmud, Jerusalem, Ha-Sifriyyah ha-Mishpatit, 1929, at p. 58.
Halbertal, Moshe, Between Torah and Wisdom: Menachem ha-Meiri and the Maimonodean Halakhists in Provence, Jerusalem, Magnes Press, 2000.
Halbertal, Moshe, “One Possessed of Religion”: Religious Tolerance in the Teaching of the Me’iri” Edah Journal, 1, 2000, pp. 1–23.
Heller, Marvin J., “Earliest Printings of the Talmud,” in Sharon Lieberman (ed.), Printing the Talmud: From Bomberg To Schottenstein, Yeshiva University Museum, 2006, pp. 61–78, at p. 74.
Herring, Basil and Auman, Kenneth, The Prenuptial Agreement: Halakhic and Pastoral Considerations, Northvale, NJ, Jason Aronson Inc., 1996.
Hertz, J.H., The Pentateuch and Haftorahs, one-volume edition, London, Soncino Press, 1937, 2nd edition, 1960.
Hildesheimer, Esriel Erich, “Die Komposition der Sammlungen von Responsen der Gaonen,” in Joseph Wohlgemuth (ed.), Judisce Studien, Frankfurt am Main, 1928, pp. 177–269.
Horowitz, Elliot S., Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence, Princeton University Press, 2006, pp. 81–106.
Hyman, A., Toldot Tannaim VeAmoraim, vol. III, London, Express Printers, 1910, at p. 847.
Jewish Encyclopedia, Managing Editor Isadore Singer, article entitled “Jacob ben Asher,” at vol. 7, pp. 27–28, Funk and Wagnalls Co., New York and London, 1904.
Kasowski, Chaim Josua, Thesaurus Talmudis, New York, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1954, vol. I, pp. 121–125 and 207–208; vol. XV, pp. 228–251; vol. XXXI, pp. 57–60.
Katz, Jacob, Exclusiveness and Tolerance, Oxford University Press, 1961.
Kirschenbaum, Aaron, The Criminal Confession in Jewish Law (Heb.), Jerusalem, Magnes Press, 2005, pp. 143–157.
Kirschenbaum, Aaron, “The Good Samaritan and Jewish Law,” Dinè Israel, 7, 1976, at pp. 10–12, particularly notes 15 and 16, and pp. 7–85, particularly pp. 28–59.
Kirschenbaum, Aaron, Self-Incrimination in Jewish Law, New York, The Burning Book Press, 1970, pp. 50–58.
Klein, Hyman, articles in J.Q.R. 38, 1947, pp. 67–91; 43, 1953, pp. 341–363; 50, 1959, pp. 124–146; in Journal of Semitic Studies, 3, 1958, pp. 363–372; and in Tarbiz 31, 1962, pp. 23–42.
Kochen, Madeline, Organ Donation and the Divine Lien in Talmudic Law, Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 195–201, at p. 196 n. 53 and p. 200.
Leibson, Gideon, “Determining Factors in Herem and Nidui During the Tannaitic and Amoraic Periods” (Heb.), in Shenaton HaMishpat HaIvri, Jerusalem, Institute for Research in Jewish Law, vol. 2, 1975, pp. 292–342.
Lewin, B.M., Otzar Ha-Geonim to Bava Kamma, Jerusalem, 1943, at 92b, at pp. 69 and 100.
Mantel, Hugo, Studies in the History of the Sanhedrin, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1961, at p. 239.
Melammed, E.Z., “An Introduction to Talmudic Literature” (Heb.), Jerusalem, 1973, at pp. 435–436.
The New English Bible, with the Apocrypha, Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, 1970, published under the auspices of The Church of England and various other Protestant Denominational groups.
The New York Times Editorial Board, “An Enemy of Reform in New York Jails,” New York Times, January 2, 2015, p. A20.
Onkeles, ed. by A. Berliner, Berlin, 1884.
Rabbinovicz, , Dikdukei Soferim to Berachot, 1882, Introduction, pp. 101, 104–105.
Rabbinovicz, , Dikdukei Soferim to Bava Kamma 113b, at p. 281, n. 8; 114a, at p. 281, n. 20.
Rabinovitch, Nachum, Commentary to Rambam’s Mishneh Torah, Yad Peshutah, Jerusalem, Maaliyot Press, 1990.
Rabinovitch, Nachum, “Jews Are Responsible for One Another,” in Jacob J. Schacter (ed.), Jewish Tradition and the Non-Traditional Jew, The Orthodox Forum series, Northvale, NJ, Jason Aronson, Inc., 1992, pp. 177–204, at pp. 179–180 and notes 6–7.
Rakover, Nahum, Mesirut Nefesh (Sacrificing Life: Giving Up One to Save the Many), (Heb.) Jerusalem, The Library of Jewish Law, 2000, at p. 25.
Rapaport, Abraham A., “The Informer in Jewish Literature (Until the End of the Geonic Period),” unpublished Doctoral Thesis, May 1952, Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University, New York, at pp. 120–126.
Resnicoff, Steven H., “Jewish Law and the Tragedy of Sexual Abuse of Children: The Dilemma within the Orthodox Jewish Community,” Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, 13(2), 2012, pp. 1–90, at pp. 1–3.
Revel, Dov, “Adam Chashuv” (Heb.), Ner Maaravi, 1, 1924, pp. 7–21, at pp. 12–13.
Riskin, Shlomo, Women and Jewish Divorce, Hoboken, NJ, KTAV Publishing, 1989, at pp. 134–142.
Rosenbaum, Thane, The Myth of Moral Justice: Why our Legal System Fails to Do What’s Right, New York, Harper Collins, 2004.
Rubenstein, Jeffrey L., “The Rise of the Babylonian Rabbinic Academy: A Reexamination of the Talmudic Evidence,” JSIJ 1, 2002, pp. 55–68.
Schacht, Joseph, An Introduction to Islamic Law, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1964, pp. 132 and 192–195.
Schremer, Adiel, Brothers Estranged: Heresy, Christianity and Jewish Identity in Late Antiquity, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 131–141.
Shapiro, Marc, Comments on Michael Broyde, “Informing on Others for Violating American Law: A Jewish Law View,” in Self-Censorship in the Arukh ha-Shulhan, ArtScroll’s Latest Betrayal, and Other Assorted Comments, available at www.jlaw.com/Articles/mesiralaw2.html.
Shilo, Shmuel, “Maimonides on Dina de Malchuta Dina (The Law of the State is Law),” Jewish Law Annual, I, 1982, pp. 146–167. See particularly pp. 150–154, and note 25 on p. 151.
Shilo, Shmuel, at pp. 150 and 151. Based on Rambam, Hilchot Zechiya Umattanah 1:15.
Shilo, Shmuel, at p. 148, based on Rambam, Hilchot Gezelah 5:18.
Shilo, Shmuel, at 150, based on Rambam, Hilchot Gezelah 5:14.
Siev, Asher, (ed.), “Introduction,” in Responsa of Ramah, Jerusalem, 1971, pp. 27–29.
Sifra de bei Rav, Jerusalem, 1959, p. 104a, to Emor, Perek 8, sec. 9.
Sklare, David E., Samuel Ben Hofni Gaon and his Cultural World, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1996, at p. 74, n. 24.
Soloveitchik, Haym, Collected Essays, vol. I, Oxford, The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2013, p. 20.
Soloveitchik, Joseph B., Kol Dodi Dofek, Fate and Destiny, New York, KTAV, 1992, at pp. 92–95, n. 25.
Speiser, E.A., Genesis, The Anchor Bible, translation and notes, New York, Doubleday, 1964. Notes to Genesis 18:24, at p. 124.
Spicehandler, Ezra, “Bei Dawar and Dina D’Magista: Notes on Gentile Courts in Talmudic Babylonia,” HUCA 26, 1955, pp. 333–354.
Stern, Josef, “Maimonides on Amalek, Self-Corrective Mechanisms, and the War against Idolatry,” in Hartman, David and Malino, Jonathan W. (eds.), Judaism and Modernity: The Religious Philosophy of David Hartman, Farnham, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2004, pp. 360–362.
Stern, Josef, Problems and Parables of Law: Maimonides and Nachmanides on Reasons for the Commandments, Albany, NY, SUNY Press, 1998, ch. 1, pp. 1–13, and ch. 6, pp. 109–160.
Tractate Soferim, M. Higger (ed.), Jerusalem, Makor Publishing, 1950, 10:1, at pp. 209–210, footnotes to lines 6–9.
Weiss, Avraham, Mehkarim BeTalmud (Heb.), Jerusalem, 1975, pp. 225–226, 231–237
Weiss, Susan M. and Gross-Horowitz, Netti C., Marriage and Divorce in the Jewish State: Israel’s Civil War, HBI Series on Jewish Women, Waltham, MA, Brandeis University Press, 2012, Closing chapter, “Human Rights Violations in Israeli Rabbinic Courts.”
Weisz, D. Max, Seridim Min HaGenizah, Budapest, 1924, p. 29.
Wohlman, M., Bet Mishpat Magista, in Hamishpat, vol. IV, 1930–1931, pp. 114–116.
Zevin, Shlomo Josef, Rabbi, Encyclopedia Talmudit,
vol. I, Adam Chasuv, pp. 175–180.
vol. II, s.v. Ones, p. 162.
vol. V, pp. 337–339.
vol. VI, Gerama b’Nezikin, columns 461–497, at 485–497.
vol. XVII, Chillul Hashem, columns 340–360.
vol. XXIV, columns 395–399.
Zunz, , Haderashot BeYisrael (Heb.), Albeck (ed.), H., Jerusalem, Mossad Bialik, 1947, at p. 111.