RESPONSA ON CONTEMPORARY JEWISH WOMEN’S ISSUES

NEW EXPANDED EDITION

By RABBI YEHUDA HENKIN

Pages: 276

ISBN: 9781602805408

Ktav Publishing House

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Anyone interested in Jewish women's issues or contemporary Halacha can not afford to forgo this masterpiece, now expanded to encompass 31 iconic responsa of Rabbi Yehuda Henkin on women's issues, including several translated here into English for the first time.

For decades, Rabbi Henkin was a peerless voice confronting today's Jewish women's issues. His four volumes of responsa, She'elot uTeshuvot Bnei Banim, carry approbations from the generation's luminaries. Fully one third of Rav Henkin's oeuvre focuses on women's issues in Jewish life. Rav Henkin was known for his rare originality, intelligence, unswerving honesty, sensitivity, and religious force.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

American-born Rabbi Yehuda Henkin (1945–2020) occupies a central position in the contemporary halachic discourse. He was the grandson and student of the renowned R. Yosef Eliahu Henkin, and held degrees from Columbia University. Following the family's aliya

in 1972, Rabbi Henkin was appointed District Rabbi for Israel's Bet Shean Valley. Later on he provided rabbinic supervision for Yoatzot Halacha for two decades. In 2018, he was awarded the Katz Prize for Torah Literature, previously conferred upon such greats as R. Immanuel Jakobovits, R. Shlomo Goren, R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and R. Eliezer Waldenberg. Rabbi Yehuda and Chana Henkin were the parents of Rav Eitam Henkin, who together with his wife Naama, Hy"d, was murdered by terrorists in 2015.

 

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