Foreword • Acknowledgments • Introduction • PART 1: JEWISH LAW AND THE RISE OF THE MODERN NATION-STATE • Benedict de Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise • Selections from the Writings of Moses Mendelssohn and an Associated Text • Abraham Geiger, Posthumous Writings • Selections from the Writings of Samson Raphael Hirsch • Zacharias Frankel, “Judicial Evidence According to Mosaic Talmudic Law” • Heinrich Graetz, History of the Jews • Selections from the Writings of Hermann Cohen • Menachem Elon, “The Legal System of Jewish Law” • Selections from the Writings of Robert Cover • PART 2: EASTERN EUROPEAN VIEWS OF LAW: DISSOLUTION OF JEWISH COMMUNAL POWER • Selections from the Writings of Elijah of Vilna and Associated Texts • ?ayyim of Volozhin, The Soul of Life • Selections from the Writings of Shneur Zalman of Liady • Na?man Krochmal, Guide of the Perplexed of the Age • Yisrael (Lipkin) Salanter, Light of Israel • ?ayyim Soloveitchik, Novellae and Clarifications on Maimonides • Shimon Shkop, Novellae on Tractates Bava Kamma, Bava Metzia, and Bava Batra • Selections from the Writings of Yisrael Meir Kagan and Associated Texts • Selections from the Writings of Joseph B. Soloveitchik • PART 3: ULTRA-ORTHODOXY AND THE REJECTION OF THE MODERN NATION-STATE • Selections from the Writings of Moshe Sofer and Associated Texts • Selections from the Writings of Akiva Yosef Schlesinger and an Associated Text • Moshe Shemuel Glasner, Fourth Generation • Isaac Breuer, “The Philosophical Foundations of Jewish and of Modern Law” • Selections from the Writings of Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz • Moshe Feinstein, Epistles of Moshe • Selections from the Writings of Yoel Teitelbaum and Associated Texts • PART 4: JEWISH LAW AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL • Selections from the Writings of Abraham Isaac Kook • Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel, Uziel’s Rulings • Shlomo Goren, “Is a Torah Constitution Possible?” • Isaac Halevi Herzog, Constitution and Law in a Jewish State According to the Torah • Yeshayahu Leibowitz, “The Religious Significance of the State of Israel” • Eliezer Berkovits, Not in Heaven: The Nature and Function of Halakha • Shaul Yisraeli, Pillar of the Right • Eliezer Waldenberg, Laws of the State • Ovadiah Yosef, “Regarding Women’s Recital of the Blessing over the Lulav and Other Time-Bound Positive Commandments” • PART 5: JEWISH FEMINIST VIEWS OF LAW • Rachel Adler, Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics • Tamar Ross, Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism • Tova Hartman, Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation • Ronit Irshai, “Toward a Gender Critical Approach to the Philosophy of Jewish Law (Halakhah)” • Index