All Rabbinic Rulings (Religious Legal Instruments)

Rulings of Jewish authorities that bind a community, such as the Takkanot of Rabbeinu Gershom and the bans on the writings of Maimonides and on Baruch Spinoza. An entry belongs here when its article presents a decree or ban issued by rabbis. The group page lists texts of the same legal kind together so that a reader can compare how religious authority and state power are put into writing. Entries are placed by what their own article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group that its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.