Circumventing the Law: Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity by Stein Hain, Elana
Circumventing the Law: Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity by Stein Hain, Elana

Circumventing the Law: Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity

Circumventing the Law probes the rabbinic logic behind the use of loopholes, the legal phenomenon of finding...
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Circumventing the Law: Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity by Stein Hain, Elana

Circumventing the Law: Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity

$192.35
Circumventing the Law: Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity by Stein Hain, Elana

Circumventing the Law: Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity

$192.35
Author: Elana Stein Hain
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Circumventing the Law probes the rabbinic logic behind the use of loopholes, the legal phenomenon of finding and using gaps within law to achieve otherwise illegal outcomes. The logic of ha'aramah, a subset of rabbinic legal circumventions mostly defined as a tool for private life, underpins both well-known circumventions, such as selling leaven before Passover, and lesser-known mechanisms, such as designating an animal intended for sacrifice "blemished" before birth to allow it to be slaughtered for food instead. Elana Stein Hain traces the development of these loopholes over time, revealing that rabbinic literature does not consistently accept or reject loopholes. Instead, rabbinic Judaism applies categories of evasion (prohibited), avoidance (permitted), and avoision (contested) to loopholes on a case-by-case basis. The intended outcome of a given loophole determines its classification, as does the legal integrity of the circumventive process in question.

Yet these understandings of loopholes are not static--instead, rabbinic attitudes toward loopholing change over time. Early works display an objective, performative understanding of the self and of intention, but evolve over time to reflect more subjective and intimate understanding of the self and intention. This evolution redefines what legal integrity means in Jewish legal philosophy.

Circumventing the Law brings readers through the Second Temple period to the modern era to see how loopholing has evolved over millennia. With a focus on late antiquity, Stein Hain explores tannaitic literature, the Palestinian Talmud, and contemporaneous Greco-Roman and Persian thought to show that when warranted, Jewish rhetoric and philosophy around understandings of loopholes was a unique phenomenon that relied on changes in understanding the definition of integrity itself, a key finding for scholars of Jewish Studies and of religious and of secular law writ large.

Author: Elana Stein Hain
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 01/20/2024
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781512824407

About the Author
Elana Stein Hain is the Rosh Beit Midrash and a Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, where she leads research and curriculum development in the Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought and serves as lead faculty for the Institute's educational programming. This is her first book.
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