Jewish Edited by ' 1 P Leora Batnitzky and Legal Yonatan Y. Brafman Theories

WRITINGS ON STATE, RELIGION,

And morality

Brandeis University Press

Waltham, Massachusetts Contents

Foreword ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii

1 Jewish Law and the Rise of the Modem Nation-State l

1 Benedict de Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise 3

2 Selections from the Writings of Moses Mendelssohn and an Associated Text 7 3 Abraham Geiger, Posthumous Writings 15 4 Selections from the Writings of Samson Raphael Hirsch 20 5 Zacharias Frankel, “Judicial Evidence According to Mosaic Talmudic Law” 24 6 Heinrich Graetz, History of the Jews tj 7 Selections from the Writings of Hermann Cohen 29 8 Menachem Elon, “The Legal System of Jewish Law” 35 9 Selections from the Writings of Robert Cover 38

Eastern European Views of Law: Dissolution of Jewish Communal Power 43

10 Selections from the Writings of Eliyahu of Vilna and Associated Texts 45

11 Hayyim of Volozhin, The Soul of Life 51

12 Selections from the Writings of Shneur Zalman of Liady 55 13 Nahman Krochmal, Guide of the Perplexed of the Age 58 14 Yisrael (Lipkin) Salanter, Light of Israel 65 15 Hayyim Soloveitchik, Novellae and Clarifications on Maimonides 69 16 Shimon Shkop, Novellae on Tractates Bava Kamma, Bava Metzia, and Bava Batra 74 17 Selections from the Writings of Yisrael Meir Kagan and Associated Texts 77 i8 Selections from the Writings of Joseph B. Soloveitchik 84 ill Ultra-Orthodoxy and the Rejection of the Modern Nation-State 93

19 Selections from the Writings of Moshe Sofer and Associated Texts 95 20 Selections from the Writings of Akiva Yosef Schlesinger and an Associated Text 108 21 Moshe Shemuel Glasner, Fourth Generation 118 22 Isaac Breuer, “The Philosophical Foundations of Jewish and of Modern Law” 125 23 Selections from the Writings of Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz 130

24 Moshe Feinstein, Epistles of Moshe 140 25 Selections from the Writings of Yoel Teitelbaum and Associated Texts 146

IV Jewish Law and the State of Israel 161

26 Selections from the Writings of 163 27 Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel, Uziel's Rulings 1/8 28 Shlomo Goren, “Is a Constitution Possible?” 184 29 Isaac Halevi Herzog, Constitution and Law in a Jewish State According to the Torah 196 30 Yeshayahu Leibowitz, “The Religious Significance of the State of Israel” 204 31 Eliezer Berkovits, Not in Heaven: The Nature and Function ofHalakhah 206 32 Shaul Yisraeli, Pillar of the Right 211 33 , Laws of the State 216 34 Ovadiah Yosef, “Regarding Women’s Recital of the Blessing over the Lulav and Other Time-Bound Positive Commandments” 224 V ] Jewish Feminist Views of Law 233

35 | Rachel Adler, Engendering : An Inclusive Theology and Ethics 235 36 | Tamar Ross, Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism 240 37 | Tova Hartman, Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation 244 38 | Ronit Irshai, “Toward a Gender Critical Approach to the Philosophy of Jewish Law (Halakhah)” 248

Index 253