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Responsal
Responsal Re*spon"sal (r?*sp?n"sal), a. Answerable. [Obs.]
Responsal
Responsal Re*spon"sal, n. [Cf.LL. resposalis.] 1. One who is answerable or responsible. [Obs.] --Barrow. 2. Response. [Obs.] --Brevint.

Meaning of Responsa from wikipedia

- Responsa (plural of Latin responsum, 'answer') comprise a body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed...
- The history of responsa in Judaism (Hebrew: שאלות ותשובות, Sephardic: She'elot Utshuvot, Ashke****c: Sheilos Utshuvos, usually shortened to שו"ת Shu"t)...
- the decisions and responsa of their predecessors, whose sayings and traditions were generally regarded as authoritative. These responsa of the later geonim...
- rabbis at the local level. Conservative authorities produced voluminous Responsa literature. Conservative Jewish thinkers take the position that halakha...
- S2CID 45182735. Ibn Abi-Zimra, David (1749). David Ashke**** (ed.). The Responsa of the Radbaz (in Hebrew). Vol. 1. Venice., s.v. Part II, responsum # 653...
- as well as one of earliest recorded Jewish sources for that region. His responsa show evidence of wide reading, keen intelligence, and systematic thought...
- Shulchan Aruch Levush Malchut Minchat Chinuch Mishnah Berurah Mishneh Torah Responsa literature Sefer ha-Chinuch Sefer Hamitzvot Sefer Mitzvot Gadol Shulchan...
- include: Quaestiones in 37 books (written before 198 CE); nineteen books of Responsa (written sometime between 204 CE and his death); two books, the Definitiones...
- and reference materials. The very first such database was the Bar Ilan Responsa Project, which began in 1963 at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, migrated...
- His glosses printed on the margins of the Shulchan Aruch, as well as his responsa in his Shut works, are foundational elements in the world of daily halachic...