Volume 19 of The Jewish legislations Annual is a festschrift in honor of Professor Neil S. Hecht. It comprises 13 articles, ten in English and 3 in Hebrew. a number of articles are jurisprudential in nature, concentrating on research of halakhic associations and ideas. Elisha Ancselovits discusses the idea that of the prosbul, asking if it is right to construe it as a felony fiction, as numerous students have asserted. he is taking factor with this characterization of the prosbul, and with different scholarly readings of Tannaitic legislation generally. The options of dignity and disgrace are addressed in very varied articles, one through Nahum Rakover, and the opposite through Hanina Ben-Menahem. the previous discusses halakhic resources touching on the consideration inherent in human life, and the significance of nurturing it. The latter offers a desirable survey of tangible felony practices that contravened this haklakhic norm. Attestations of those practices are adduced not just from halakhic and semi-halakhic records, but in addition from literary, historic, and ethnographic assets. 3 articles take on topical problems with huge modern curiosity. Bernard S. Jackson reviews on felony matters when it comes to the concept that of conversion coming up from the tale of the biblical heroine Ruth, and compares that idea to the thought of conversion invoked by means of a contemporary English courtroom choice on eligibility for admission to denominational colleges. an editorial via Dov I. Frimer explores the a lot agonized-over query of halakhic treatments for the spouse whose husband refuses to provide her a get (bill of divorce), precluding her remarriage. Frimer’s concentration is the feasibility of inducing the husband to furnish the get via financial strain, in particular, by means of awarding the chained spouse compensatory tort damages. Tort treatments also are mentioned within the 3rd topical article, via Ronnie Warburg, on negligent misrepresentation through funding advisors. papers specialize in concept of legislation. Shai Wozner explores the choice rules–conduct ideas dichotomy within the Jewish legislations context, clarifying how research of which type a given legislation falls less than complements our figuring out of the law’s reason. Daniel Sinclair explores the doctrine of normative transparency within the writings of Maimonides, the Hatam Sofer, and R. Abraham Isaac Kook, demonstrating that even though transparency used to be universally recommended as an amazing, a few rabbinical gurus have been prepared to forego transparency the place upkeep of the halakhic approach itself was once imperiled. an editorial by way of Alfredo M. Rabello experiences the first and secondary literature on end-of-life matters, and contextualizes the much-discussed talmudic passage bAvoda Zara 18a. And a piece of writing via Chaim Saiman deals a severe survey of the most ways to conceptualizing and educating Jewish legislation in American universities; it additionally makes feedback for brand new, and maybe extra illuminating pedagogic path. within the Hebrew part, an exciting article through Berachyahu Lifshitz offers a comparability of Persian and talmudic legislation at the prestige of delivers and the position of the divine of their enforcement. Yuval Sinai discusses the halakhic legislation of facts, quite the well known "two witnesses" requirement and departures from it. the quantity closes with a historic article via Elimelech Westreich at the professional rabbinical court docket in 19th century Jerusalem. It specializes in the rabbinical figures who served at the court docket, the groups for whom it adjudicated, and its position within the broader geopolitical and sociocultural context.