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In this unprecedented masterwork, The Scholar's Haggadah: Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Oriental Versions, Heinrich Guggenheimer presents the first Haggadah to treat the texts of all Jewish groups on an equal footing and to use their divergences and concurrences as a key to the history of the text and an understanding of its development. The Seder (the ceremony of the Passover night) is one of the most universally celebrated rituals among Jewish families, for what it commemorates Jewish freedom from bondage is the glue that bonds all Jews together, traditional and modern, Ashkenazic and...

This, the first volume of a five-volume edition of the third order of the Jerusalem Talmud, deals with Jewish marital law and related topics. The volume is concerned with levirate marriage, considering other Jewish sects at the same time, with forbidden marriages and the judicial treatment of missing husbands, with the incapability to marry, and with the status of married juveniles.The publication of one volume per year is planned. Key feature - Continuation of the well-received English-Aramaic edition

Der Traktat Ketubot ("Ehevertrage") bespricht u.a. die schon bei Eheschlieung fur den Fall der Scheidung oder des Todes des Mannes ausgesetzte Summe, dazu allgemein die Pflichten des Manns und der Frau gegeneinander, den Besitz der Frau, das Erbrecht nach der Frau und die Rechte der Witwe. Der Traktat Nidda ("Unreinheit der Frau") regelt das Verhalten wahrend der Menstruation (vgl. Lev 15,19ff) und nach einer Geburt (Lev 12); weitere Themen sind die Lebensalter der Frau, Pubertat und verschiedene medizinische Fragen.

Der Text ist vokalisiert zur besseren Verstandlichkeit und um dem...

This volume concludes the edition, translation, and commentary of the third order of the Jerusalem Talmud. The pentateuchal expression lqkh ' h to take as wife is more correctly translated either as to acquire as wife or to select as wife . The Tractate Qiddu in deals with all aspects of acquisition as well as the permissible selections of wives and the consequences of illicit relations.

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This is volume 13 of the edition of the complete Jerusalem Talmud. Within the Fourth Order Neziqin ("damages"), these two tractates deal with various types of oaths and their consequences (Sevu‛ot) and laws pertaining to Jews living amongst gentiles, including regulations about the interaction between Jews and "idolators" (‛Avodah Zarah).

This volume of the Jerusalem Talmud publishes the first twotractates of the Second Order, abbat and Eruvin. These tractates deal with discussion of all regulations regarding Shabbat, the weekly day of rest, including the activities prohibited on Shabbat. The tractate Eruvin covers questions of definition of what is allowed to do on Shabbat. The Second Order is the last one to be published in Heinrich W. Guggenheimer s edition of the Jerusalem Talmud.

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This volume of the Jerusalem Talmud comprises the fourth and fifth tractates of the Second Order. Pesahim introduces the prescriptions regarding Passover; Yoma covers regulations related to Yom Kippur, especially the role of the Kohen Gadol and the order of services. The tractates are vocalized by the rules of Rabbinic Hebrew with an English translation. They are presented with full use of existing Genizah texts and with an extensive commentary explaining the Rabbinic background necessary for understanding the texts.