Hilkhot Nashim Volume 2: Kiddush, Hamotsi, Havdalah and Sefer Torah [Hardcover]

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The Hilkhot Nashim series presents an in-depth review of laws relating to women in Jewish ritual life. Tracing the development of responses on a given topic – from Talmudic to Geonic to medieval to modern – each chapter reproduces all relevant halakhic sources in both Hebrew and English. The writers then contextualize and clarify the sources, closely parse their language, and explain their effects on subsequent posekim. This guided exploration of the halakhic process exposes readers to the rich tapestry of Jewish legal literature, its concerns and considerations, and the full complexity of the issues it braves.
This second volume is devoted to questions of women and rituals connected to Shabbat, in which women are taking active participatory roles – reciting kiddush and hamotsi, reciting havdalah, and touching the Torah.

Four topics:
Kiddush by Rahel Berkowits
Hamotzi by Rahel Berkowits
Havdala by Rahel Berkowits
Sefer Torah by Devorah Zlochower

About the Author
Rahel Berkovits is a senior lecturer in Mishnah, Talmud, and halakhah at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, where she has been teaching for almost twenty years. She writes articles and lectures widely both in Israel and abroad on topics concerning women and Jewish law. Rahel is a founding member of Congregation Shira Hadasha, a halakhic partnership synagogue, and she serves on their halakhah committee. In June 2015, Rahel received rabbinic ordination from Rabbis Herzl Hefter and Daniel Sperber.

Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 366
Language: English
Publisher: Maggid (August 24, 2022)
ISBN-10: 1592645720
ISBN-13: 978-1592645725

Hilkhot Nashim Volume II: Kiddush, Hamotsi, Havdalah and Sefer Torah [Hardcover]
Halachic Source Guides Volume 2
By: Rahel Berkovits