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The Study of Talmud: Understanding the Halachic Mind. By Abraham Hirsch Rabinowitz. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, Inc.1996. Pp. xxvii, 205. $40.00. ISBN: 1-568-21946-6.
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1. For my own attempt at part of an answer, see The Oral Law and the Jurisprudence of a Text-less Text, S'vara, A. J. of Phil., L., & Judaism 11 (Winter 1991)Google Scholar.
2. See Patterson, Dennis, Law and Truth (Oxford U. Press 1996)Google Scholar.
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4. I strongly rely in this discussion on Yisroel Taplin, Troper, Zalman & Trabert, Ken, The Date Line in Halacha: A Halachic Guide to the Laws of the Date Line Condensed from Sefer Taarich Yisroel (Y. Taplin 1999)Google Scholar. My text here also draws some language from “This Month,” a short unpublished essay of my own.
5. B.T. Shabbat 107b.
6. Rabinowitz alludes to this sort of possibility, as for example in a one-sentence, elliptical, reference to debates over the Jewish status of groups such as the Ethiopian Jews: “There are numerous problems, especially those involving the ingathering of the scattered tribes of Israel, that could possibly be dealt with on historical and other grounds, but halachah cannot accept such solutions” (15-16). But his discussion here should have been less ambiguous and sketchy, and more forthcoming.
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