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Rabbinic and lay communal authority / edited by Suzanne Last Stone. - New York : Michael Scharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University Press, c2006. - xxiv, 173 p. ; 24 cm. - The Orthodox forum series .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-170) and index.

On lay legislation in halakhah : the king as instance / Gerald J. Blidstein -- Communal governance, lay and rabbinic : an overview / Aharon Lichtenstein -- Charismatic leader, charismatic book : Rabbi Shneur Zalman's Tanya and his leadership / Nehemia Polen -- Rav, rosh yeshivah, and kahal / Shaul Stampfer -- New conditions and new models of authority : the yoatzot halakhah / Chana Henkin -- The role and authority of the rabbi in American society / Chaim I. Waxman -- New conditions and models of authority : changing patterns within contemporary Orthodoxy / Steven Bayme -- On constructively harnessing tensions between laity and clergy / Marc D. Stern.

ISBN: 9780881259537 (hardback) 0881259535

LCCN: 2006102351

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Rabbis--Office--Congresses.
Authority--Religious aspects--Judaism--Congresses.
Jewish leadership--Congresses.
Leadership--Religious aspects--Judaism--Congresses.
Jewish law--Decision making--Congresses.
Tradition (Judaism)--Congresses.
Orthodox Judaism--Congresses.

LC Class. No.: BM652 / .O77 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 296.6