Responsa
Legal scholarly replies
Responsa are written decisions and rulings by rabbinical authorities in response to questions about Jewish law.
The singular is responsum.
Dating back centuries, this body of literature addresses everything from dietary laws to business ethics, forming a major source of halakhic (Jewish legal) interpretation: The rabbi consulted the responsa on whether the practice was permitted.
Jewish spiritual leader
- ConservativeRight-leaning party supporter
- ReformModernizing institutional movement
- AshkenaziJews of European descent
- SephardiJew of Iberian descent
Questions seeking information
- repliesAnswers given back
- epistlesLiterary or formal letters
- commentariesExplanatory notes on texts
- scholarshipEducational funding or erudition
discourse · dialectic · casuistry · hermeneutics · precedents · deliberation · codification · compilation
rabbi
Jewish spiritual leader
- ConservativeRight-leaning party supporter
- ReformModernizing institutional movement
- AshkenaziJews of European descent
Sephardi · yeshiva · Torah · Talmud · Shabbat · customs · authority
queries
Questions seeking information
- repliesAnswers given back
- epistlesLiterary or formal letters
- commentariesExplanatory notes on texts
scholarship · discourse · dialectic · casuistry · hermeneutics · precedents · deliberation · codification · compilation · anthology
- Judaicamenorah, Torah scroll, Talmud, Torah study, mezuzah
- Hebrew textsTorah scroll, Torah scrolls, Tanakh, Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew Bible
- Jewish textsTorah, Tanakh, Talmud, Mishnah, siddur
- Maimonides Works
- sacred textsBible, Vedas, Quran, Upanishads, Torah
- RishonimMordechai
ResponsaPentateuch
Five books of Moses
Torah · Tanakh · Mosaic law · Hebrew Bible · Ten Commandments
- take responsibilityAccept fault for outcomes
- call and responseAlternating vocal pattern
- emergency responseOrganized action during crises
- no responseAbsence of reply
- personal responsibilityDuty to own consequences
- canned responsePre-prepared standard message
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