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List Books » Tears of the Oppressed: An Examination of the Agunah Problem: Background and Halakhic Sources
Authors: Aviad Hacohen, Blu Greenberg
ISBN-13: 9780881258677, ISBN-10: 0881258679
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Date Published: November 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Introduction | v | |
Foreword | vii | |
Acknowledgments | xv | |
Chapter 1 | Background | 1 |
Chapter 2 | A Word of Caution | 4 |
Chapter 3 | Attitudes of Compassion and Leniency | 6 |
Chapter 4 | Relaxation of the Laws of Evidence Concerning Agunot: Example of a Methodology Favoring Leniency | 17 |
Chapter 5 | The Uniqueness of the Problem in Our Day | 20 |
Chapter 6 | The Basic Sources for Kiddushei Ta'ut | 23 |
Chapter 7 | The Rishonim and the Codes: Stringent and Lenient Approaches | 34 |
Chapter 8 | The Responsa Literature | 45 |
Chapter 9 | General Principles to be Derived from the Precedents | 93 |
Chapter 10 | Conclusion | 98 |
Afterword | 103 | |
Glossary | 105 | |
Appendix (Responsa of Chapter 8) | 108 | |
Index Following Appendix | 159 |