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Jewish Law: History, Sources, Principles has been masterfully translated from Menachem Elon’s original Hebrew texts. This first volume in a series of four details the history and elements of Jewish law. It also features an extensive commentary on exegesis and interpretation of the legal sources of Jewish law including the Torah, the Halakhah and Midrash and Parshanut.

I I am gratified by the publication of this English translation of my Hebrew work Ha-Mishpat Ha-Ivri. This work is the fruition of long labor in the field of Jewish law: researching and writing, lecturing in the Law School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and other universities, and, during the past fifteen years, drawing upon the resources of Jewish law to help decide cases as a justice of the Supreme Court of Israel. The book surveys Jewish law as a legal system, reviewing the
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