Download or read book Divine Law in Human Hands written by Jacob Katz and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an anthology of articles authored by Jacob Katz, most of which have been translated from his two volumes of collected studies in Hebrew Halakhah and Kabbala (1984) and Halakhah in Straits (1992). The focus of this collection is the Halakhah, the system of law that both molded Jewish life and was molded by it during the medieval period and, to a certain extent, in modern times.