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Notes on Responsa Literature
The following articles have been drawn largely from the shiurim
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Biographical information has generally been drawn from the Bar-Ilan Responsa CD.
All of that said, as I have stated regarding topics I have covered during some of my public speeches at Kenesseth Israel Congregation in Minneapolis, I believe that an understanding of the history of the evolution of halacha and of the halachic process are an important part of understanding the place of psak in contemporary Modern Orthodoxy and of thus understanding what “Modern Orthodoxy” is and in particular differentiate the role of psak in the Modern Orthodox context from that in the Orthopraxic/Conservative context.