Adam Mintz

Building Communities (eBook, ePUB)

A History of the Eruv in America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Jewish law forbids carrying objects between private or public areas on the Sabbath. However, rabbinic authorities deemed carrying permissible within a physical enclosure called an eruv. This book explores the rabbinic debates surrounding the creation of such enclosures in North American cities and examines the evolution of American Orthodox communities from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s. The earliest debates reflect a community with low religious observance and weak ties to local government that relied on European rabbis for authority. By the mid-twentieth century, these rabbinic disputes reveal an established, religiously observant community forming its own traditions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798887190853
• Artikelnr.: 67235925

Autorenporträt

Adam Mintz is a rabbi and scholar in New York. He is the rabbi and founder of Kehilat Rayim Ahuvim, a Modern Orthodox community on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and a member of the Talmud faculty at Maharat, an Orthodox women's rabbinical seminary. He has lectured and published on a wide variety of topics and focuses on the legal history and culture of the Jewish community. He is married to Sharon and they have three children and two grandchildren.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. History of the Eruv
2. The St. Louis Eruv
3. The East Side of Manhattan Eruv
4. The Toronto Eruv
5. The Manhattan Eruv, 1949–1962
Conclusion
Bibliography