Several of his responsa have been preserved in the German collections; most of them refer to the rabbinic civil law.

In addition, aspects of rabbinic law have been absorbed into tort law in Israel.

Given the Jewish disregard for self-injury, rabbinic law also seeks to reduce the extent to which people put themselves into situations of potential danger.

The decision about driving was in the nature of an emergency decree, overriding what the authors saw as rabbinic law.

The crimes punished in rabbinic law with death by burning are accordingly the following ten: 1.

"Genetics is not a reality under rabbinic law," Dr. Cohen said.

Maimonides composed works of Jewish scholarship, rabbinic law, philosophy, and medical texts.

Conservative Jewish philosophy does not allow the use of popular will to overturn Biblical or rabbinic laws.

He and his beth din would have enacted a rabbinic exception to a rabbinic law.

A core text in rabbinic law crystallizes the status of the fetus.