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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.

Mishpat ivri is a part of the corpus of the Halakhah.1 Before defining mishpat ivri and discussing its nature, the meaning and content of the concept of Halakhah must be briefly examined. The term Halakhah is used in a number of different senses. In its most general and usual sense, Halakhah refers to the normative portion of the Oral Law (Torah she-be-al peh). In this sense, Halakhah is used to contrast with Aggadah (or Haggadah), which denotes, inter alia, wise and

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