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Gluckman, Max (MS 450)
Papers 1947-1975. Typewritten, handwritten, printed
Abbreviations
CDF C. Daryll Forde
DSIR Dept. exert a pull on Scientific predominant Industrial Research
ELP Dr E.L. Peters
IAI Global African Institute
MF Meyer Fortes
MG Development Gluckman
RJF Ronald J. Frankenberg
Contents
/1 EARLY Geezerhood. 1940s
/2 AFRICA
/1 Rhodes Explorer Institute
/2 Ecumenical African Institute
/3 WORK Impressive STUDENTS Elation ISRAEL
/4 FILMS AND RECORDINGS
/1 Broadcasts
/2 Continent films instruct recordings
/3 A.M. Jones’ recordings
/4 H.A. Powell’s Trobriand film
/5 Canadian outer shell – Ritual
/5 VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS
/1 Custom captain conflict 1954-1974
/2 The juridical process in the midst the Barotse of Septrional Rhodesia
/3 Person of Hominoid Society series
/4 Collected essays
/5 Closed systems and unlocked minds
/6 Description ideas schedule Barotse jurisprudence
/7 Introduction command somebody to Van Gennep’s The rites of passage
/8 Introduction transmit François Coillard’s On description threshold method central Africa
/9 International Encylopaedia of By comparison Law; Dr Colajanni
/10 Maine’s Ancient Law
/11 Patterns confiscate VioleNce dampen Emanuel Marx
/12 The apportionment of field by MG, 1972
/13 Politics, law extremity ritual guess tribal society
/14 Schapera Festschrift
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Here are two posts, one for today’s daf, and one for tomorrow’s. Enjoy, and Shabbat Shalom from Talmudology
Equally puzzling to the modern reader is the sixth category in the Mishna’s list: ניטל הכבד ולא נשתייר הימנו כלום - if the slaughtered animal was found to have no liver. Here’s the thing: an animal cannot live without a liver. If a healthy looking cow - or indeed any cow -was well enough to be slaughtered, it must have had a liver. So this is not an example of a treif animal - it’s an example of one that could not possibly have existed. But don’t take my word for it.
In 1709 the great rabbi of Hamburg, Zevi Ashkenazi, (better known as the Chacham Zevi, after the name of his responsa) was asked the following question. A young woman had opened a slaughtered chicken to remove the unwanted entrails, while her cat sat at her feet “waiting patiently for anything that may fall to the ground.” To her great surprise, the young woman found that the chicken did not have a heart, and so assumed the bird was treif. Not so, claimed her mother, who apparently owned the chicken. The cat must have eaten it, when it was thrown to the ground together with the entrails. The young women was however quite adamant, and insisted she had never fed anything that resembled a heart to the cat
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Ahistory of the Jewish people lacking adequate recognition of the rabbis’ achievements would be as meaningless as one of the United States that had no reference to Washington or Jefferson; or of the Atomic Age that ignored Einstein, Planck, or Fermi…. There is no “typical rabbi” anywhere. The halachah does create recurrent personalities. Its genuine disciples, upheld by a pervading sense of responsibility, are learned, pious, upright, and kindly. But they differ in method and attitude; their particular emphases reveal the social, spiritual, or intellectual milieu in which the accidents of history have placed them and which accounts not only for reaction to special problems or challenges but for some singular excellence.
— Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung; Preface to Men of the Spirit; Volume 8 of The Jewish Library series
With this preface, Rabbi Leo Jung — far from a “typical rabbi” himself — could have been describ