Rabbinic Authority Volume 6: The Vision and the Reality, Beit Din Decisions in English

In this sixth volume of his groundbreaking series on rabbinic authority, Rabbi Warburg continues to discuss issues related to the modern-day Agunah, such as who has the authority to void a marriage and criminal proceedings against a Jew in a non-Jewish court for get refusal. Accompanying his discussion of rabbinical domestic rulings, which includes collaborative preproduction and the ownership and market of human tissue, Rabbi Warburg continues to examine rabbinic civil law cases.

“For a number of decades, I have been involved on an ad hoc basis as a dayan, including serving on judicial panels for the Beth Din of America. In this capacity, I have often crossed paths with Rabbi Warburg and served together with him on the same judicial panel. In each panel we served on together, Rabbi Warburg’s outstanding Torah scholarship was always in evidence, scholarship motivated by a perfectionist’s drive to achieve new vistas in advancing the ‘double dimension’ of truth that stands as the ideal for the halakhic-judicial process.”

–From the foreword of Rabbi Dr. Aaron Levine, zt”l