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In Jewish law and history, Acharonim (Hebrew: אחרונים, romanized: Aḥaronim, Modern Israeli Hebrew: [ʔaχ(a)ʁoˈnim], Biblical Hebrew: [ʔaħ(a)roˈnim]; lit. ' last ones ' ; sing. אחרון , Aḥaron ) are the leading rabbis and poskim (Jewish legal decisors) living from roughly the 16th century to the present, and more ...
Rabbinic literature, in its broadest sense, is the entire corpus of works authored by rabbis throughout Jewish history. [1] The term typically refers to literature from the Talmudic era (70–640 CE), [ 2 ] as opposed to medieval and modern rabbinic writings .
The period of the Achronim, or the Third Rabbinic Epoch includes response of Italian, Turkish, German, and Polish rabbis. Given the political climate and various persecutions the Jews were experiencing throughout this time period, the majority of these responsa were written in response to questions concerning legal matters. [2]
Rishonim (Hebrew: [ʁiʃoˈnim]; Hebrew: ראשונים, lit. 'the first ones'; sing. ראשון, Rishon) were the leading rabbis and poskim who lived approximately during the 11th to 15th centuries, in the era before the writing of the Shulchan Aruch (שׁוּלחָן עָרוּך, "Set Table", a common printed code of Jewish law, 1563 CE) and following the Geonim (589–1038 CE).
What can be learned through the nine principles (he believed that four of them were not allowed to be used in post-Talmudic times). Every story in the Bible comes to teach us ethical, religious, and philosophical ideas. Most of what we call Remez can be clearly understood by resorting to exact translation and grammatical analysis.
Midrash is increasingly seen as a literary and cultural construction, responsive to literary means of analysis. [47] Frank Kermode has written that midrash is an imaginative way of "updating, enhancing, augmenting, explaining, and justifying the sacred text". Because the Tanakh came to be seen as unintelligible or even offensive, midrash could ...
This category is for Early Acharonim, meaning rabbis who lived the majority of their lives between 1500 and 1800. See Category: ...
Arba'ah Turim (Hebrew: אַרְבָּעָה טוּרִים), often called simply the Tur, is an important Halakhic code composed by Yaakov ben Asher (Cologne, 1270 – Toledo, Spain c. 1340, also referred to as Ba'al Ha-Turim).