Jun 6, 2016
Book Review: A Guide To The Complex
NOTE: I was not paid to review this book. It is an unbiased and objective review. If you have a book with Jewish or Israel related content and would like me to write a review, contact me for details of where to send me a review copy of the book.
Book Review: A Guide To The Complex, by Shlomo M Brody
I have really been enjoying reading A Guide To The Complex, by Shlomo M. Brody.
A Guide To The Complex is a book describing "contemporary halachic debates" and it is very broad in the range of topics discussed within. What is unique about this is that each article, one on each topic, is brief - just 2 or 3 pages long - and expansive. while hitting all the main issues that are relevant to the topic.
Obviously one is not going, and should not, use this book as a source of psak and halachic decisions. The articles are not thorough enough for that. The articles touch on the various issues involved in each topic, along with the mention of a variety of approaches of various rabbonim to the issue at hand. The articles are clear, easy to read, focused, and to the point.
I found A Guide To The Complex to be a refreshing change from the average halachic book that has long detailed articles on a select number of topics and issues. This book has a lot of short articles explaining the major issues on a broad variety of topics. The articles take just a few minutes each to read, but they provide a lot of food for thought.
And the range of topics discussed in A Guide To The Complex is broad, and interesting. The topics range from women reading from the Torah to bicycle riding on Shabbos to quinoa on Pesach to the recitation of Hallel on Yom Haatzmaut to owning a gun store to assisted suicide to taxes to stem cell research to contraceptives to Yom Hashoah commemorations to praying for rain and much much more. In all there are 134 topics in total discussed in A Guide To The Complex.
Anybody who wants to increase his general knowledge of what the various issue sare and various approaches to each issue, would do well to read A Guide To The Complex.
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I have really been enjoying reading A Guide To The Complex, by Shlomo M. Brody.
A Guide To The Complex is a book describing "contemporary halachic debates" and it is very broad in the range of topics discussed within. What is unique about this is that each article, one on each topic, is brief - just 2 or 3 pages long - and expansive. while hitting all the main issues that are relevant to the topic.
Obviously one is not going, and should not, use this book as a source of psak and halachic decisions. The articles are not thorough enough for that. The articles touch on the various issues involved in each topic, along with the mention of a variety of approaches of various rabbonim to the issue at hand. The articles are clear, easy to read, focused, and to the point.
I found A Guide To The Complex to be a refreshing change from the average halachic book that has long detailed articles on a select number of topics and issues. This book has a lot of short articles explaining the major issues on a broad variety of topics. The articles take just a few minutes each to read, but they provide a lot of food for thought.
And the range of topics discussed in A Guide To The Complex is broad, and interesting. The topics range from women reading from the Torah to bicycle riding on Shabbos to quinoa on Pesach to the recitation of Hallel on Yom Haatzmaut to owning a gun store to assisted suicide to taxes to stem cell research to contraceptives to Yom Hashoah commemorations to praying for rain and much much more. In all there are 134 topics in total discussed in A Guide To The Complex.
Anybody who wants to increase his general knowledge of what the various issue sare and various approaches to each issue, would do well to read A Guide To The Complex.
buy A Guide To The Complex on Amazon.com
NOTE: I was not paid to review this book. It is an unbiased and objective review. If you have a book with Jewish or Israel related content and would like me to write a review, contact me for details of where to send me a review copy of the book.
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I have this book and love it. Yes the chapters are short but they get much longer if you want to check each reference he makes.
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