1550-1655 education sixteenth monographs

books:

Ideals Face Reality: Jewish Law and Life in Poland, 1550-1655
Edward Fram

Wayne State University Press, 2000

This study analyzes how sixteenth -and seventeenth-century jurists adapted the law to the evolving sensibilities of Jewish society. Drawing upon rabbinic legal decisions (responsa), talmudic and legal exegesis, the ordinances of Polish Jewry's political leadership, and Polish legal records, Fram examines cases in which the halakhah confronted unfamiliar circumstances or the special needs of individuals or groups within the community. Dealing ...

My Dear Daughter: Rabbi Benjamin Slonik and the Education of Jewish Women in Sixteenth-Century Poland ...
Edward Fram

Hebrew Union College Pr, 2007

Based on passages in Leviticus, rabbinic law dictates that Jewish women who experience uterine bleeding are prohibited from having physical contact of any kind with their husbands. The intricate laws of niddah (enforced separation) spell out exactly when and under what circumstances physical relations, even simple touching, can be resumed. Aside from the guidance of other women, how could sixteenth-century women learn all the rules and ...