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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-170) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780881259537 (hardback) 0881259535 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006102351 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Rabbis--Office--Congresses.<br/>Authority--Religious aspects--Judaism--Congresses.<br/>Jewish leadership--Congresses.<br/>Leadership--Religious aspects--Judaism--Congresses.<br/>Jewish law--Decision making--Congresses.<br/>Tradition (Judaism)--Congresses.<br/>Orthodox Judaism--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BM652  / .O77 2003 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>296.6