From Sinai to Ethiopia: The Halakhic & Conceptual World of the Ethiopian Jews
- ISBN-10
- 9652296376
- ISBN-13
- 9789652296375
- Category
- Jewish law
- Pages
- 250
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-02-15
- Publisher
- Gefen Books
- Author
- Sharon Shalom
Description
Some two thousand years ago, a group of Jews settled in Ethiopia and was for millennia cut off from the rest of world Jewry, preserving its heritage with great self-sacrifice. When this community, the Beta Israel, ultimately made its way to Israel to rejoin its brethren in the late twentieth century, a host of complex dilemmas emerged. Should the Beta Israel shed its venerated customs, based on ancient, pre-rabbinic Jewish law, and adopt the rabbinic halakhah of modern-day Jewry? Or is there a place for the unique legacy of the Ethiopian Jews within the umbrella of the wider Jewish community?
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