| If you have complaints, try looking through the scripts and responsa as to why these laws are in place. |
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| After the war he retrieved his notes and began writing them out as full-length rabbinical rulings, or responsa. |
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| Indeed, he had continued writing halachic responsa almost until the moment of her death. |
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| These juridical responsa are translated here for the first time into a European language, with introduction and annotation. |
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| The author of this collection of responsa was a member of a Tunisian family of scholars, most of whose works were published in Leghorn. |
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| A vast responsa literature covers the period from the ninth century to the present day. |
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| Fleckeles' responsa, published in three parts between 1809 and 1820, followed a new arrangement in the history of this literature. |
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| The codes and responsa provide a wealth of historical and linguistic documentation beyond their purely legal significance. |
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| A number of the early editions of the codes and more interesting editions of responsa, of the hundreds held in the Lowy collection, are displayed here and throughout the exhibition. |
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| In turn, these responsa were synthesized into rules, and maxims became the pithy expression, often expressed as proverbs, of these rules. |
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| At the heart of the Collection are the first and early editions of Talmud, codes of law, responsa, legal and biblical commentaries and mystical texts. |
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| The element of autonomy was not formalised in the time of the Republic, but was conceded by the State to the responsa of the jurists, and to the edicts of the praetors. |
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