Cardozo Law Review
Abstract
Before we may even begin to critique the substance of Rabbi Emanuel Quint's A Restatement of Rabbinic Civil Law, Volume IV, we must first understand and appreciate its fundamental significance and contribution to the world of Jewish literature. For any sincere attempt to elucidate civil law in the Jewish religion is an admirable and noble task. Religion, in a general sense, has for many years in this country and elsewhere been associated almost exclusively with the spheres of ritual, prayer, and worship. Religious law is thus often perceived as governing Temple service, holidays, and other areas of "ritual" observance. Laws governing interpersonal, human, or civil relations such as tort or property law have traditionally been seen as being within the province of secular law, legislated and enforced by a particular governmental sovereign. What ultimately emerges is a clear demarcation between what is often perceived as two distinct and separate parts of life: the worship of G-d involving prayer and rituals on the one hand, and the actual living of one's everyday societal and economic life on the other.
Disciplines
Law
Recommended Citation
Leon Wildes,
A Modern Restatement of Jewish Civil Law,
18
Cardozo L. Rev.
2037
(1997).
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https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/clr/vol18/iss6/7