Contemporary Halakhic Problems : Volume #6

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In Volume VI, Rabbi Bleich discusses societal and communal issues including use of torture as a weapon against terrorism, sacrificing human lives for the protection of society, enforcement of hetter iska agreements in American courts, malpractice liability, contemporary medical questions, miniscule crustaceans in New York water, parasite infested fish, issues concerning kohanim, commercial exploitation of human remains and much, much more.

Each of these topics has been the subject of considerable discussion and debate within the Jewish community. The author employs his formidable Talmudic knowledge in culling the relevant material from the vast responsa literature and brings to bear keen analytical skills in demonstrating how these sources illuminate emerging issues. This work is an invaluable source book for all students of traditional Jewish law and practice.

This classic authoritative series is a universal bestseller among both scholars and laymen. A Jerusalem Post reviewer observed that it is "scholarly, lucid and good-tempered Direct, comprehensive, realistic enjoy this treasury of halakhic knowledge."

Rabbi Judah David Bleich is a respected authority on Jewish law and ethics, especially Jewish medical ethics. Born in New York in 1936, he studied at Torah Vada'as and Beis Medrash Elyon, as well as in the kollel in Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim of Radun. He received smicha from Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and Rabbi Mendel Zaks in 1957 and was a close student of the late Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky. Rabbi Bleich holds a bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College, a masters from Columbia University, and a PhD from New York University. Bleich is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a fellow of the Academy of Jewish Philosophy and a postdoctoral fellow at the Hastings Center. He advises the United States government on issues of ethics from a Jewish Orthodox perspective, is Rosh Kollel in the Yadin Yadin kollel (Institute for the Study of Jewish Monetary Law) at Yeshiva University and Rav of Yorkville synagogue.

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