Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin is the author of eighteen books, including a series of five volumes on the Aramaic translation of the Hebrew Bible, which he co-authors with Dr. Stanley M. Wagner, and a series of four books on the twelfth century philosopher Moses Maimonides, the latest being Maimonides: Reason Above All, published by Gefen Publishing House, www.gefenpublishing.com. The Orthodox Union (OU) and Yeshiva University publish Wagner and Drazin’s latest book Let’s Study Onkelos on their websites.
Review
By Israel Drazin
A Daughter’s Recitation of Mourner’s Kaddish
By Rahel Berkovits
JOFA, 2011, 93 pages
Orthodox Judaism, like American and other judges, makes legal decisions based on precedents, not only on what modern people think is correct. When a question arises, Orthodox rabbis examine what has been said about the matter in the past, and scrutinize why the particular rabbi said what he did. Thus, Rahel Berkovits, who takes an Orthodox approach to the law, inspects the entire history of a woman saying the mourner’s kaddish. Her analysis is scholarly, yet written in an interesting manner. She examines, explains, and comments upon 53 rabbinic sources comprehensively, and includes 254 scholarly notes.
What is the kaddish?
