Methodology of Psak

J. David Bleich Spring 2019 Issue 51.2

Post of author J. David Bleich

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Checks””

Preemptive War in Jewish Law

“Review of Recent Halakhic Periodic Literature “Cheating”, “Teachers’ Unions”, “Expulsion of Students”, “Damages to School Property”, “Study of Anatomy I: Dissection”, “Study of Anatomy II: Observation””

The Metaphysics of Property Interests in Jewish Law: An Analysis of Kinyan

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Birkat Ha-Hammah: An Alternate Date?””

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Video Surveillance

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodic Literature: Cadavers on Display

Review of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: “Sale of Arms,” “Cholent,” “Recitation of Ve-Ten Tal U-Matar by Travellers”

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Lanolin””

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Artificial Heart Implantation””

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Professional Secrecy”, “Elective Surgery Prior to Shabbat”, “Dating the Ketubah””

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Entering a Non-Jewish House of Worship

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “War and the State of Israel”, “Hijack Victims”, “Induced Labor”, “Circumcision on Shabbat”, “Autopsies With Consent of the Deceased”, “Temporary Crowns”, “Mamzerut””

The Conversion Crisis: A Halakhic Analysis

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Prostate Surgery””

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

Torture and the Ticking Bomb

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Use of Microwave Ovens on Shabbat”, “Fasting During Pregnancy”, “Dating the Ketubah””

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Plastic Surgery”, “Tenure”, “Removal of Torah Scrolls”, “Employment During the Post-Nuptial Week”, “Sale of Israeli Real Estate to Non-Jews””

Survey Of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Indirect Coercion in Compelling a Get”, “Automatic Banking Machines”, “Jaundice and Circumcision”, “Copyright to Tape Recording””

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Teaching Torah to Non-Jews””

Survey of Recent Halkhic Periodical Literature: May a Sabbath-Desecrator Drink Wine?

Women on Synagogue Boards

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Test-Tube Babies”, “Severance Pay:hired Servant or Independent Contractor?”, “Entebbe:II”, “Cantorial Repetition””

Black Jews: A Halakhic Perspective

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Hypospadias and Circumcision””

Medical Malpractice and Jewish Law

The Problem of Identity in Rashi, Rambam, and the Tosafists

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Experimental Procedures and Pikuah Nefesh:the Concept of Refu’ah Bedukah””

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Copyright”, “Physicians’ Fees”, “Tuna Fish: Continued”, “Maternal Identity””

A Review of Halakhic Literature Pertaining to the Reinstitution of the Sacrificial Order

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Mitzvot on the Moon”, “Garfish and Scad”, “Rabbinic Contracts”, “Mendicants”, “Sounding the Trumpets”, “The Names of God””

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Utilization of Scientific Data Obtained Through Immoral Experimentation””

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Hetter Iska and American Courts

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Women in a Minyan?”, “Erev Pesach Which Occurs on Shabbat”, “Sale of Chametz by Tourists”, “Imprisonment or Death for Convicted Terrorists”, “Dual Bar Mitzvahs”, “Bat Mitzvah Celebrations””

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Settlement in Israel”, “Delayed Burial”, “Sale of Commercial Enterprises to Sabbath Violators”, “The Agunah Problem”, “Yom Tov Sheni””

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Seclusion Under Video Surveillance, The Paradox of R. Chanina Ben Teradion

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodic Literature: Styrofoam Cups and Utensils; Formula-Fed Veal

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “The Intifada and the Gulf War”, “Defying Governmental Edicts”, “Declining to Carry Within an Eiruv”, “Listening to a Radio on Shabbat”, “Teacher’s Claim for Lost Wages”, “Caterer’s Claim for Cancellation of Wedding””

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodicial Literature: In the Wake of Birkat Ha-hammah 5769

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “The Rabbinate: Problems, Problems. . .”, “Medical Experimentation Upon Severed Organs”, “Settlement in Israel in Face of Danger”, “Residence in Spain”, “Southern Hemisphere”, “The Microphone Controversy””

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

Survey Of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature Do The Deceased Enjoy Property Rights?

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodicial Literature: Medical and Cosmetic Tattooing

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Blood Sugar Tests – Use of Viagra on Shabbat

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: “Pregnancy Reduction,” “Kashrut Certification”

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Sabbath Candles for Young Girls”, “Slacks”, “Cold-Water Plucking”, “Tay-Sachs Reexamined””

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodic Literature: A $25,000,000 Funeral

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Sterilization of Women”, “Tay-Sachs Disease”, “Temporary Residents in Israel and Yom-Tov Sheni”, “Prayer from The Bimah”, “Organized Labor””

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Hazardous Medical Procedures”, “Impotence as Grounds for Divorce”, “Privacy of Personal Correspondence”, “Netilat Yadayim by Soldiers”, “Immersion of Disposable Aluminum Utensils””

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Converts and Customs; Diabetics and Shabbat

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodic Literature: Is the Milk We Drink Kosher?

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Vegetarianism and Judaism””

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Physicians’ Strikes”, “Nuclear Warfare”, “Hanukkah Lights for Travellers”.”

Survey Of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Piscatorial Parasites

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Cochlear Implants

AIDS: A Jewish Perspective

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Judges Under Threat”, “Caffeine Suppositories on Fast Days”, “Tuna Fish”, “Pituitary Dwarfism””

A 19th Century Agunah Problem and a 20th Century Application

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Returning From Missions of Mercy on the Sabbath””

Judaism and Animan Experimentation

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Liability for Harm Caused by Metaphysical Forces

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “The Babirusa: A Kosher Pig?”, “Sefirat Ha-Omer and the Observance of Shavu’ot for Travellers Crossing the Dateline”, “Brides Lacking a Uterus””

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Disposition of Fertilized Ova

Survey Of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

Priestly Identity; Sonograms and the Unborn Kohen; Detached Buttons on Shabbos

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Observance of Shabbat by a Prospective Proselyte and by a Ger She-Mal Ve-Lo Toval”

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Transexual Surgery”, “Emergency Use of An Automobile on Shabbat”, “Accompanying a Patient on Shabbat”, “Comet Kohoutek”, “Daylight Saving Time and Morning Prayer””

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “In Vitro Fertilization:questions of Maternal Identity and Conversion”

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Permitting Use of a Mikveh for Non-Orthodox Conversion””

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Physicians’ Strikes”, “Nuclear Warfare”, “Hanukkah Lights for Travellers”.

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Haftorah From a Braille Text”, “Settlement in Egypt”, “Photosensitive Eyeglasses”, “Tzitzit for Nylon and Polyester Garments?””

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Hetter Iska””

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

Extending Sabbath Invitations to the Non-Observant/ Maternal Identity Revisited

Survey of recent halakhic periodical literature: cadaveric dental implants

Resurrection and Personal Identity

Survey of Recent Ha/halakhic Periodical Literature

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Spontaneous Generation and Halakhic Inerrancy by J. David Bleich

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

Survey Of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “The Device of the “Sages of Spain” as a Solution to the Problem of the Modern-Day Agunah””

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Children of Mixed Mariages:their Status as Levites”, “Shaving on the Intermediate Days of Festivals”, “Single Sterilizer for Both Meat and Dairy Utensils”, “War and Peace”, “Sabbath Elevators””

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Birkat Ha-Gomel and Tefillat Ha-Derekh for Air Travelers””

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Hetter Iska”

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodicial Literature: The Case of the Poisoned Sandwich

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Host -Mothers”, “Refusal to Gran a Religious Divorce”, “Apartments Over a Synagogue”, “A Responsum From Behind the Iron Curtain”, “Electric Substitutes for Chanukah and Sabbath Lights””

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature (Substitution of Lottery Tickets & Products Liability)

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

Of Cerebral, Respiratory and Cardiac Death

Judea and Samaria: Settlement and Return

SURVEY OF RECENT HALAKHIC PERIODICAL LITERATURE

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Smoking on Yom Tov”, “Smoking in Public Places”, “Turbot””

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Marriage of a Kohen and the Daughter of a Non-Jew”

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “The Sanctity of the Liberated Territories”, “Repayment of Loans and Currency Exchange”, “Paper Cups for Kiddush”, “Pampers””

Abortion in Halakhic Literature

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

Priestly Identity; Sonograms and the Unborn Kohen; Detached Buttons on Shabbos

“Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Cannibalism”, “Extradition”, “Guard Duty on the Temple Mount”, “The Langer Case””

“Survey Of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature “Smoking”, “Induced Labor”, “Entebbe”, “Time of Death Legislation””

Methodology of Psak

Post of author J. David Bleich

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