* Rabbi Moshe Feinstein.

Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, a leading Rabbinical authority for Orthodox Jewry for a quarter of the twentieth century.

Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, a leading Rabbinical authority for Orthodox Jewry

Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, a leading Rabbinical authority for Orthodox Jewry of the second half of the twentieth century.

The Haredim maintain a delicate balancing act: on an individual level, Conservative and Reform Jews are seen as " innocents led astray " ( Rabbi Moshe Feinstein ).

* Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, one of the highest halachic authorities for much of the twentieth century

When dealing with the individual, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein is famously quoted as characterizing all

Whilst the Mishnah Berurah and Rabbi Moshe Feinstein recommend wearing a woolen garment in accordance with the Shulchan Aruch's ruling, the Chazon Ish was known to wear cotton, in accordance with the ruling of the Vilna Gaon.

Rabbi Moshe Feinstein wrote that permission is granted to every woman who wishes to fulfil even those mitzvot which the Torah did not obligate ; and they indeed fulfil a mitzvah and receive the reward for the fulfilment of ït including saying the appropriate associated blessing ( as with shofar, lulav etc.

On his maternal line, Soloveitchik was a grandson of Rabbi Eliyahu Feinstein and his wife Guta Feinstein née Davidovitch, who in turn was a descendant of a long line of Kapulyan rabbis, and of the Tosafot Yom Tov, the Shelah, the Maharshal, and Rashi.

He argued with Rabbi Moshe Feinstein over the proper height of a mechitza ( divider between men and women in the synagogue ).

In 2006 Sherman was married to Lisa Kaplan by the senior Rabbi of Valley Beth Shalom, Rabbi Eddie Feinstein.

Many authorities, including Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, permitted it, and the Lubavitcher Rebbe actively encouraged it, while some authorities forbid it.

Abulafia ’ s life inspired a series of literary works such as poems by Ivan Goll, Moses Feinstein ( not Rabbi Moshe Feinstein ) and Nathaniel Tarn ; Umberto Eco ’ s novel Foucault's Pendulum ; and a play by George-Elie Bereby ; in art, Abraham Pincas ’ paintings and Bruriah Finkel ’ s sculptures ; and several musical pieces.

In the words of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein: " Were it not for him, there would be no Torah study and no Fear of Heaven at all in America.

Over time, certain choices became established in certain communities ; in contemporary Jewish observance one may not choose his or her own haftarah, explains Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, as that would run against accepted custom.

Such dissenting voices include rabbis Rabbi Elazar Shach, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, and Rabbi Moshe Feinstein.

The recent ( 2011 ) translation by Artscroll, under the general editorship of Rabbi Eliyahu Klugman, includes comparisons with the Mishnah Berurah and the Igrot Moshe of Moshe Feinstein.

* Tahara Manual of Practices including Halacha Decisions of Hagaon Harav Moshe Feinstein, zt ' l, Rabbi Mosha Epstein, 1995, 2000, 2005.

This usually indicates that many sages taught so, or that Judah haNasi ( often called " Rabbi ") who redacted the Mishnah together with his academy / court ruled so.

One must also note that in addition to redacting the Mishnah, Rabbi and his court also ruled on which opinions should be followed, though the rulings do not always appear in the text.

Among many Hasidic Jews, only hand-made shmurah matzah may be used, in accord with the opinion of Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz, who ruled that machine-made matzoth were chametz.

However the non-Hasidic Haredi community of Jerusalem follows the custom that machine-made matzah may be used, with preference to the use of shmurah flour, in accordance with the ruling of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Zonnenfeld, who actually ruled that machine-made matzah may be preferable to hand made in some cases.

Rabbi Peretz ben Elijah ruled, " The cry of the daughters of our people has been heard concerning the sons of Israel who raise their hands to strike their wives.

" Rabbi Rothberg ruled that " For it is the way of the Gentiles to behave thus, but Heaven forbid that any Jew should do so.

" Rabbi Rothenberg also ruled that a battered wife could petition a rabbinical court to compel a husband to grant a divorce, with a monetary fine owed her on top of the regular ketubah money.

The late 12th and early 13th century Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg ruled that in a community consisting entirely of Kohanim, the prohibition on calling Kohanim for anything but the first two and maftir aliyot creates a deadlock situation which should be resolved by calling women to the Torah for all the intermediate aliyot.

The Halakha committee of the Masorti movement ( the equivalent of Conservative Judaism ) in Israel has ruled that women do not receive such aliyot and cannot perform such functions as a valid position ( Rabbi Robert Harris, 5748 ).

When controversy arose regarding the conscription of religious girls ( giyus banot ) into the Israel Defense Forces after the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, the photo of Kook was removed and replaced with one of Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz who ruled that Jewish females are forbidden to perform National Service ( Sherut Leumi ) in lieu of army service.

It was not until 1000 that Rabbi Gershom ben Judah ruled polygamy inadmissable within Jewish communities.

In the case that caused the controversy, the Chief Rabbi of Israel ruled that before registering a marriage between Indian Jews and Jews not belonging to that community, the registering rabbi should investigate the lineage of the Indian applicant for possible non-Jewish descent, and in case of doubt, require the applicant to perform conversion or immersion.

In 1973, as Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel, he ruled based on the Radbaz and other accounts, that the Ethiopian Beta Israel were Jews and should be brought to Israel.

In a responsum written in the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly, Rabbi Miriam Berkowitz ruled that the " harkhakot are to be observed as much as possible, but left up to the discretion of each couple ".

In another responsum for the committee, Rabbi Susan Grossman ruled that touching that would be appropriate between siblings is permissible.

Rabbi Grossman, a majority opinion, and Rabbi Berkowitz, the minority opinion, ruled that women may rely on their own discretion about when menstruation has ended, and need not routinely engage in bedikah as described above.

The Chief Rabbinate of Israel, which is the only state-recognized authority on religious matters, backed by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, ruled against this, making it legally invalid for purposes of Israeli law.

In 1973 Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, then the Chief Sephardic Rabbi, based on the Radbaz and other accounts, ruled that the Beta Israel were Jews and should be brought to Israel.

More recently Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar has ruled that descendants of Ethiopian Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity are " unquestionably Jews in every respect ".

With the consent of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Rabbi Amar ruled that it is forbidden to question the Jewishness of this community, pejoratively called Falashmura.

The village's rav, Rabbi Yitzchak Avigdor Orenstein, ruled that new homeowners could move into their homes even during The Nine Days, saying that the mitzvah of settling the Land of Israel overrode the laws of the mourning period.

During the 1970s, members of the Beta Israel, a community of Ethiopian Jews, began to immigrate to Israel after Ovadia Yosef, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, ruled that they were descendents of the Biblical Israelites and that they should be eligible for citizenship under Israel's Law of Return.