Research and Books

The Institute serves as a hub for research in Hebrew law by the Institute's researchers and colleagues. Over the years, many studies have been published by the Institute's researchers:

 

Institute for Research in Jewish Law  - Publications

  • The Bargain and Sale of Rabbi Hai Gaon (Part 1), translated by Dr. Zvi Stampfer, Jerusalem 2025

  • Berachyahu Lifshitz, Obligation and its Collaterals - Acquisition or Security?, Jerusalem 2018 (Hebrew).

  • Studies in Law and Halakhah: Menachem Elon Memorial Volumeedited by Arye Edrei, David Gliksberg, Aviad Hacohen,  Berachyahu Lifshitz, Benjamin Porat, 2018 (Hebrew).

  • Shimshon Ettinger, Evidence in Jewish Law, Jerusalem 2011 (Hebrew)

  • Yuval Sinai, The Judge and the Judical Process in Jewish Law, Jerusalem 2010 (Hebrew)

  • Shmuel Shilo, Law, Morals and Equity in the Jewish Legal System, Jerusalem 2006 (Hebrew)

  • Hanina Ben-Menahem and Berachyahu Lifshitz (eds.), On Law and Equity in Maimonidean Jurisprudence, Jerusalem 2004 (Hebrew)

  • Hanina Ben-Menahem and Others (ed.), Controversy and Dialogue in the Halakhic Sources (3 vol.), Jerusalem 2002 (Hebrew)

  • Aharon Nachalon, the Kahal and Its Enactments in the Geonic Period, Jerusalem 2001 (Hebrew)

  • Shimshon Ettinger, Agency in Jewish Law in Comparison with Agency Law 1965, Jerusalem 1999 (Hebrew)

  • Berachyahu Lifshitz and Eliav Shochetman (eds.), Digest of the Responsa Literature of Germany France and Italy [Legal Digest], Jerusalem 1997 (Hebrew)

  • Menachem Elon (ed.), Digest of the Responsa Literature of Spain and North Africa [Index of Sources] vol.2, Jerusalem 1981-1987 (Hebrew)

  • Menachem Elon (ed.), Digest of the Responsa Literature of Spain and North Africa [Legal Digest], Jerusalem 1986 (Hebrew)

  • Menachem Elon (ed.), Digest of the Responsa Literature of Spain and North Africa [Historic Digest], Jerusalem 1981 (Hebrew)

  • Shnaton Ha-Mishpat Ha-Ivri:  Annual Journal of the Institution for Research in Jewish Law, vol. 1-29

  • The Jewish Law Annual Volumes 20-21

 

Additional publication of the faculty members regarding Jewish Law

  • Berachyahu Lifshitz, The Hlacha: By God or by Man, Jerusalem 2019 (Hebrew).

  • Benjamin Porat, Justice for the Poor: The Principles of Welfare Regulations from Biblical Law to Rabbinic LiteratureJerusalem 2019 (Hebrew).

  • Eliav Shochetman, Civil Procedure in Rabbinical Courts, Jerusalem 2011 (Hebrew).

  • Berachyahu Lifshitz, Midrash Shmuel, Jerusalem 2009 (Hebrew).

  • Gideon Libson, Jewish and Islamic Law: A Comparative Study of Custom During the Geonic Period, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2003.

  • Berachyahu Lifshitz, Law and Action, Jerusalem 2002 (Hebrew).

  • Hanina Ben-Menachem, Authority, Process and Method:‎Studies in Jewish Law, Australia 1998.

  • Berachyahu Lifshitz, Employee and Independent Contractor- Acquisition and Obligation in Contract, Jerusalem 1993 (Hebrew).

  • Hanina Ben-Menahem, Judicial Deviation in Talmudic Law: Governed by Men, Not by Rules, Boston

  • Berachyahu Lifshitz, Promise Obligation and Acquisition in Jewish Law, Jerusalem 1988 (Hebrew)

  • Eliav Shochetman, Illegal Act in Jewish Law, Jerusalem 1985 (Hebrew)

  • Eliav Shochetman, Responsa of Rabbi Meir Gavizon, Jerusalem 1985 (Hebrew)

  • Shmuel Shilo, Dina De-Malkhuta Dina, Jerusalem 1974 (Hebrew)