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What are responsa?

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Noun
  1. A body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed to them.
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A number of the early editions of the codes and more interesting editions of responsa, of the hundreds held in the Lowy collection, are displayed here and throughout the exhibition.
If you have complaints, try looking through the scripts and responsa as to why these laws are in place.
Indeed, he had continued writing halachic responsa almost until the moment of her death.
Second, brief compilations of precepts, like the works of Hefez ben Yazliah and the responsa of some Geonim.
The author of this collection of responsa was a member of a Tunisian family of scholars, most of whose works were published in Leghorn.
In turn, these responsa were synthesized into rules, and maxims became the pithy expression, often expressed as proverbs, of these rules.

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