- A
takkanah (Hebrew: תקנה, romanized: taqqānā,
plural takkanot)
translated as 'improvement', is a
major legislative enactment within halakha, the normative...
- Note that
takkanot (plural of
takkanah) in
general do not
affect or
restrict observance of
Torah mitzvot. (Sometimes
takkanah refers to
either gezeirot or...
-
paper as a responsum, but the
committee voted instead to
consider it as a
takkanah,
requiring 13
votes for adoption.) An
important difference between Conservative...
- "until the end of time". The
takkanah was
directed against gentiles of no
historical Jewish ancestry. But the
takkanah has been
applied to all conversions...
-
rabbinic laws (mitzvot derabbanan).
Types of
rabbinic laws
include the
takkanah and the gezeirah.
Medieval rabbis discussed the
question of why a Jew should...
- view
prior to
takkanah on
kohen marriages.)
Isaac Klein Responsa and
Halakhic Studies, p. 22–26. (Conservative view
prior to
takkanah on
kohen marriages...
- Galilee,
early in the
seventeenth century,
adopted an
rabbinic ordinance ("
takkanah")
invalidating any will not made in the
presence of the ַParnas; this had...
- CJLS
decisions may also
result in a
legislative decree or
takkanah.
Besides responsa and
takkanah, the CJLS
creates several other literary sources. For instance...
- Additionally, if the
surviving brother is married, Ashke****m, who
follow the
takkanah of
Gershom ben
Judah abolishing polygamy,
would be
compelled to perform...
- century, and the
Council of Four
Lands found it
necessary to
enact (1607) a
takkanah ("decree")
against shatnez,
especially warning women not to sew woolen...
