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	Moshe Feinstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was born, according to the Hebrew calendar, on the 7th day of Adar, 5655 (traditionally the date of birth of the Biblical Moshe) in Uzdan, near Minsk, Belarus, then part of the Russian empire.
		The son of a rabbi and halachic authority, Rabbi Feinstein studied in Uzdan and Slutsk.
		At the time he was regarded as Orthodoxy's foremost rabbinic scholar and halachic decisor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moshe_Feinstein (572 words)

	Halakha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name Halakha derives from the Hebrew halach הלך meaning "going" or the "[correct] way"; thus a literal translation does not yield "law", rather "the way to go." The term Halakha may refer to a single rule, to the literary corpus of rabbinic legal texts, as well as to the overall system of religious law.
		When a rabbinic posek ("decisor") proposes a new interpretation of a law, that interpretation may be considered binding for the posek's questioner or immediate community.
		There are important exceptions to this principle, which empower the posek (decisor) or beth din (court) responsible for a given opinion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Halakha (4823 words)

	Encore Archive: David Singer, Who Are Today’s Modern Orthodox?
		halachic reasoning has always been conducted in the spirit of ‘let the law bore through mountain.’ The law must be determined on its own merit and let the chips fall where they may….
		halachic outlook is virtually identical to Gordis’, one can draw upon the actual responses to his article as a way of gauging probable reactions to her book.
		halachic process, from the close of the Talmud down to the present day, is paradoxically one in which change takes place in a theoretically unchanging system.
	www.clal.org /e103.html (2159 words)

	Administrators Office - e-Chinuch.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Since Hinduism is polytheistic and venerates physical objects, it has the halachic status of idolatry; and idolatrous offerings are forbidden for use in any way by Jews.
		A respected rabbi went on a fact-finding mission to the Tirubati temple in India, where 25,000 pilgrims are said to arrive daily to cut their hair.
		He reported his findings to a preeminent senior halachic decisor in Israel, who ruled based on the facts presented that wearing wigs made from Indian hair indeed seemed to present a halachic problem.
	www.e-chinuch.org /schoolrooms/admin/ashafran/ashafran61.php3 (779 words)

	Shlomo Zalman Auerbach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He had a close association with Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, as well as the Chazon Ish and Rabbi Elazar Menachem Shach.
		He became the pre-eminent Halachic decisor of his time in Israel, respected by all streams of Orthodox Judaism.
		Many of Rabbi Auerbach's students have written their own works, but primarily based on his halachic decisions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shlomo_Zalman_Auerbach (488 words)

	UJC - Orthodox Organ Donors Sought (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		According to strict halachic interpretation, a body must be buried completely intact, or as intact as possible.
		"Brain death is a medical myth and therefore a halachic hallucination," said Rabbi J. David Bleich of the Yorkville Synagogue in Manhattan and a leading halachic decisor.
		In the case of live transplants, there are very few halachic considerations, aside from that of the health risk to the donor.
	www.ujc.org /content_display.html?ArticleID=31418 (1213 words)

	Mail-Jewish Volume 27 Number 49
		I am not aware of any halachic authority who has issued a >blanket prohibition against eating meat merely because animals are >raised in cramped conditions.
		For those interested in halachic discussions of contemporary issues, the Journal is an excellent source.
		I am not a /Posseick/(Halachic decisor) but I think that the problem on with magnetic letters on days when /Melacha/ is forbidden, has more to do with the magnetism than the problem of writing.
	www.ottmall.com /mj_ht_arch/v27/mj_v27i49.html (1661 words)

	Jewish Law - Articles - The "Halachic Health Care Proxy"
		They concluded that the range of halachic issues was too great, the changes in medical technology too rapid, the she’eilos too dependent upon individual circumstances, to presume to identify in advance the precise course of action to be taken under all future hypothetical situations.
		Although the concept underlying the “halachic health care proxy” would likely be recognized as binding throughout the United States (and presumably in most other countries as well), other states may have certain particular requirements that might require minor modifications in the basic form.
		The “halachic health care proxy” is an insurance policy that costs no money to obtain, is available to all, and provides the types of benefits that no insurance company can ever offer.
	www.jlaw.com /Articles/healthcare.html (4281 words)

	The House of Hock
		It seems logical that one of the goals of the left wing of MO should be to increase the levels and standards of observance in their followers.
		Halachically based differences about beliefs and large issues like the place of women in religion certainly are items for discussion.
		So, one would have to put a significant amount of halachic value on what the women want to counterbalance the lessening of observence of tzniut, and in order to come out in favor of women staying in shul, or being allowed to have different careers.
	houseofhock.blogspot.com (8034 words)

	Azure
		The posek, claims Saguy, arrives at a halachic conclusion based on the sources at his disposal, whether halachic or extra-halachic.
		Sources both within the halacha and outside it are as clay in the hands of the individual halachic potter.
		This approach is articulated in countless halachic and philosophical writings across the ages, and is best described as the tension between love and awe.
	www.jafi.org.il /education/jajz/azure/7/7-review.html (1526 words)

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		By that time, he was recognized as one of the leading rabbis of Poland, and many halachic questions were directed to him.
		Ashkenazim and Sephardim alike recognized Rav Yisrael Yehoshua as a distinguished posek (halachic decisor).
		Rav Yisrael Yehoshua was a supporter of the hetter (halachic permission) to sell the land of Eretz Yisrael for the duration of the shemitah.
	www.acoast.com /pub/sehc/hamaayan/9495/pinchas.945 (1222 words)

	Biur Chametz: Women and communal Torah reading - I
		Rabbi Henkin, regarded as a leading posek (halachic decisor) for the modern Orthodox community, responded to the Shapiro article by agreeing with much of his reasoning, but objecting to its implementation.
		Many of the halachic objections to women's prayer groups are not applicable.
		There is no evasion of the halachic preference for tefillah betzibur, and none of the implicit playacting involved when women read the Torah without a minyan and without fulfilling any halachic obligations.
	biurchametz.blogspot.com /2005/02/women-and-communal-torah-reading-i.html (1189 words)

	Rabbi Wein - Achrei Mos-Kdoshim
		In determining the proper answer to halachic problems raised in life, the halachic decisor relies upon three main sources to determine the correct response.
		As such, it is not difficult to see that a posek faces a veritable maze in attempting to answer a halachic problem correctly.
		There are still certain halachic issues that are waiting for a final resolution, an acceptance of one opinion by a convincing majority of scholars.
	www.torahsearch.com /page.cfm/2776 (1249 words)

	Live Organ Donation
		(rabbinic legal decisors) is that one may undergo a small risk to save someone else from certain danger or death (see SARS and Self-Endangerment) Nevertheless, one may never obligate or coerce someone to donate an organ, even to save the life of another.
		Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, a leading decisor in Israel, also rules that live organ donation of kidneys is permissible and appropriate, while not an obligation.
		Some decisors have expressed hesitation to allow live organ donation, concerned that the risk may be too great to the donor.
	www.aish.com /societyWork/sciencenature/Live_Organ_Donation.asp (2941 words)

	Jewish Heritage Questions
		Also, since they are not essential for shabbat they fall into the category of muktza which is prohibited in order to maintain the shabbat atmosphere.
		The issue of petting is beyond the scope of this discussion, so consult your local halachic authority.
		Rabbi Moshe Feinstein - (1895 - 1986), New York City, leading halachic decisor of his time and a foremost leader of Jewry, author of responsa (Iggros Moshe) and commentary on the Torah (Darash Moshe).
	www.cckollel.org /html/heritage/questions/question08.shtml (729 words)

	OU to Embark on Kosher Adventure with Part Two: The Pareve Mesorahs, a Halachic and Historical Perspective of Fish, ...
		Examples of kashrut issues which will be presented at the conference will include the kosher status of swordfish and kingklip (a South African species of fish); the status of the shibuta, a fish whose brain tastes like a pig; different types of matzot; what halachah considers the five grains; and the kosher status of gelatin.
		The Esrog Wars: The Halachic History, Botany and Economics of the Esrog, with Ari and Ari, who will discuss the origins of the different types of esrogim, the correct color and shape, and the debate over whether the pitom (stem) is necessary for the esrog to be kosher.
		The Mitzvah of Techelet in Our Times, with Rabbi Herschel Schachter, OU Posek (halachic decisor), who will discuss the correct color of tzitzit, which in ancient times were dyed blue from a specific type of fish whose identity is uncertain today.
	www.ou.org /oupr/2005/parevemesorah66.htm (999 words)

	Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week
		Since Hinduism is polytheistic and venerates physical objects, it has the halachic status of idolatry; Jews forbid idolatrous offerings for use in any way.
		He reported his findings to a pre-eminent senior halachic decisor in Israel, who ruled that wearing wigs made from Indian hair indeed seemed to present a halachic problem.
		As that information was publicized, Orthodox wig-wearers responded by eschewing their hairpieces until they could ascertain the wigs’ provenance, or until religious authorities could sift through all the facts and pertinent halachic principles.
	www.thejewishweek.com /top/editletcontent.php3?artid=3491 (797 words)

	Biur Chametz: Women and communal Torah reading - II
		R' Sperber suggested that the difference between a posek (halachic decisor) and a talmid chacham (scholar) is that, as a scholar, he is interested in the historical development of halacha, not just its current state.
		The difference between a posek and a talmid chacham, in his view, is that a posek must be concerned not just with the halachic sources, but also with the timing of a decision and its acceptability in society.
		The suggestion that a mixed reading may in some ways be halachically preferable is (humbly) my own, and is not based on anything in the essays or the discussion evening.
	biurchametz.blogspot.com /2005/03/women-and-communal-torah-reading-ii.html (2406 words)

	Example of media bias against religion
		Halacha, or Jewish religious law, considers a married woman's hair to constitute a beauty reserved for her own eyes and those of her husband, and so an assortment of head coverings -- including wigs, made either of synthetic or human hair -- are worn by observant married women.
		Wig stores catering to Orthodox women researched their wares' pedigrees or cancelled orders until they could ensure that the hair they were selling was halachically acceptable.
		Obviously, we took the issue seriously, but there was little sign around us of armed uprising or end-of-the-world hysteria.
	talkaboutreligion.com /group/talk.religion.misc/messages/555035.html (823 words)

	Beliefnet.com
		If a woman issues rulings grounded by halacha and O Jews follow them, then as far as I'm concerned she is a posek.
		I know that in the field of taharat hamishpacha (family purity), the women trained at Nishmat are referred to as "yoatzot halacha" (halachic consultants).
		They are world experts in the field, and (according to a lecture I heard by Rebbetzin Henkin, who heads the institute,) many well-respected rabbis have gone to them with questions.
	www.beliefnet.com /boards/message_list.asp?boardID=414&discussionID=361133 (905 words)

	ON THE FRINGE—AL TZITZIT: “Water, water everywhere, but not a drop a to drink"—New York City’s tap water has ...
		On the other hand, it appears that there are certainly quite adequate halachic grounds on which to say that the water is ok, and we don't have to make a big deal about it.
		“Pesak:” This is a halachic ruling, given by a “posek,” a halachic decisor.
		I suppose that the functional equivalent in civil law would be a lawyer’s interpretation of the law, or perhaps a judge’s, since this interpretation is binding.
	onthefringe_jewishblog.blogspot.com /2004/10/water-water-everywhere-but-not-drop-to.html (1307 words)

	Yom Ha'atzma'ut - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Cheif Rabbinate as weel as all Religious authohroities have declared that Yom Ha-Atzmaut is one of the Jewish Holidays in which Hallel should be said.
		This view has, however, been rejected by the majority of Orthodox Jewish halachic decisors..
		Some Jewish groups affiliated with anti-zionism specifically mourn this day.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Yom_Ha'atzma'ut (485 words)

	Blogger: Email Post to a Friend
		The argument the poseiq actually derives and finds authoritative could then be correct because of the "constitutive" model, because that's man's role in the halachic process.
		Since halachic truth includes plural views, the poseiq is defining which truth is law.
		The zaqein mamrei (a rebellious elder who refuses to bring his ruling in line with the Sanhedrin's) is punished because the effects of his actions ("like two Toros", ruining the entire concept of halachic process) are so damaging -- not because he's promoting falsehood.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=9186408&postID=110736722411083114 (1378 words)

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		A halachic authority of the period since the publication of Shulchan Aruch in the sixteenth century
		Enactment of the Sages to avert halachically undesirable situations.
		Literally "one sanctity"; the concept that a two-day festival is treated halachically as one continuous day.
	www.geocities.com /hashofar/glossarydvorah.html (12057 words)

	Being Able to Tell the Difference
		And as for verse 11 wherein Halachic decision-making is discussed, RaShI claims that an additional context, not necessarily associated with the Tabernacle, (3) is being introduced by the Tora at this point.
		Just as the priest is not to engage in Divine Service when he is unable to discern the difference between proper and improper sacrifices, so too priests, (4) or anyone else for that matter, (5) who are called upon to render Halachic decisions, are prohibited from making such decisions while unable to think clearly.
		The end of Parshat Shmini discusses yet another area, independent of the Temple and the court in which being able to decide what is permitted and what is not, is crucial—the general laws of “Kashrut”.
	www.kmsynagogue.org /Shmini1.html (1759 words)

	Another vision of leadership - Jewish Media Resources
		Rabbi Moshe Feinstein was once asked how he became the leading halachic decisor of his time.
		Even in the midst of grueling 21-hour days, he still did not desist from his regular practice of teaching a daily Humash class, and during his stay, he gave a number of lengthy halachic discourses, without benefit of notes, to overflowing crowds of critically-minded Torah students.
		No wonder that by 5 every morning, his host's house was crowded with hundreds eager for the privilege of praying together with him or that 12,000 crowded into a hall in Brooklyn to individually greet him.
	www.jewishmediaresources.com /article/52 (1013 words)

	==> The Truth About Political Stuff <==: Another perspective: Should Terri Schiavo Live or Die?
		Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, a leading halachic authority of the past generation, points out that we have no "yardstick" by which to measure value of life.
		The only components that are open to halachic debate are those involving futility of treatment.
		One must provide the posek (halachic decisor) with an accurate, honest, and thorough assessment of the patient's medical condition.
	political-stuff.blogspot.com /2005/03/another-perspective-should-terri.html (2070 words)

	Aspaqlaria: Eilu va'Eilu - part I
		So, while one may choose to embrace the idea that both occured, one must be aware that that's not shitas haRambam.
		It would seem from the Ritva (see the quote below, in the discussion of the other article) that the process of finding choices fit the "accumulative" model; G-d could have given us all 98 arguments not directly, but implicitly for us to derive.
		Since either position is truth, it's not a need to determine Torah, but that of communal unity.
	www.aishdas.org /asp/2005/03/eilu-vaeilu-part-i.shtml (1328 words)

	The Decrees of Moshe
		One is the role of halachic decisor and teacher.
		As Rambam writes in Hilchot Mamrim 1:1, the Sanhedrin that sat in Jerusalem was the "pillar of teaching and from them law and justice went out to all of Israel." In this role, it is impossible to conceive of Moshe having any equal or colleague.
		A full Sanhedrin is needed to appoint a king or a kohein gadol, yet they are needed there not as decisors but rather as an official body overseeing the act.
	chaburas.org /moshe1.html (1862 words)

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