History and Reference
Contents
Fundamental Documents
Leadership in Jewish Law
Authoritative Rabbinical Councils (A-Z)
The following is a list of rabbinical councils that are well known and who's decisions carry influence internationally.
- Agudas HaRabbanim (United States)
- Agudas Yisroel (Israel)
- Agudas Yisroel of America (United States)
- Badatz (Israel)
- Council of Torah Sages (Israel)
- Edah HaChareidis (Israel)
- Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (Israel)
- Rabbinical Council of America (United States)
- Rabbinut of Israel (Israel)
- Va'ad Harabonim of Lakewood (United States)
- Va'ad Rabonei Lubavitch (United States)
Jurisprudence
- The Oral Law and its relation to the Written Law
- Traditional Laws without any exegetical basis in the Torah
- The Categories of Oral Law
- Authority for rulings based on logical inferences
- Enactments deduced from post-Mosaic Books
- Takkanoth (Enactments) and Gezeroth (Decrees)
- Gezeroth in chronological order
- Enactments promulgated by post-Biblical authorities
- Enactments handed down from anonymous authorities
- The Takkanoth in chronological order
- Enactments promulgated by the Nesiyyim (Princes) and the Sanhedrin (Supreme Court)
- Rabbinic Enactments unanimously adopted
- Enactments the binding force of which was later relaxed
- A Summary of the various categories of the Oral Law
- Rulings established by the usage of the People
- Miscellaneous rabbinical Ordinances
- The Aggadah — a general outline of its main aspects
- Aggadoth received by tradition
- The thirty-two Middoth (Rules) employed by the Aggadah
- The Praise of the Righteous and the Condemnation of the Wicked in the Aggadah
- The Quoting of various persons under one and the same name
- The Method of expounding the names of persons
- Support in history for 'Tradition' handed down by the Great Assembly
- Divine Providence in the Aggadah
- Alterations in textual reading as a specific device in homiletic expositions
- Aggadoth aimed at inspiring and stirring the curiousity of the People
- Aggadoth expressing profound ideas in figurative style
- Aggadoth relating the performance of mriacles
- The Parables of the Aggadah — illustrations pointing a moral
- The Aggadic use of hyperbole and the employment of numbers figuratively; also Biblical quotations in the Aggadah which are at variance with the Massoretic text
- Demons, witchcraft, incantations, dreams, and planetary influences, medical prescriptions, and curative methods in the Aggadah
- The contradictory views regarding the Aggadah and its place in talmudic teaching
- Dates of completion of the Mishnah and Talmud
History
- Secular and religious history of the Jewish Sanhedrin
- The Title Nasi in Jewish Tradition
- The Sanhedrin in Rabbinic & Greek Sources
- The Titles Ab Bet Din, Hakam and Mufla
- The Removals of the Sanhedrin from Jabneh to Usha
- The Offices of the Nasi; Jesus, Paul, and the Sanhedrin
- On the Reliability of Rabbinic Sources
- Capital Cases Outside Jerusalem.
Archeology
- Newly discovered ruins of the Sanhedrin at Tiberias (Spring 2005)
- Archaeological program to explore all ten locations of the Sanhedrin
See also
- Other online books can be found on "Friends of the Sanhedrin" website History and Reference and היסטוריה ועיון; and on the "Hareidi.Org" website.