Torat HaHiggayon BaHalakhah

Torat HaHiggayon BaHalakhah

Contents

Versions

I; The Causes; Material, Formative and Creative, and Formal

II; Complex Creative Causes

III; This and That are Causes (zeh v'zeh gorem)

IV; The Approach of the Rishonim and Poskim Regarding Indirect Causation, Dina DeGarmei, and Harm that is Not Apparent

V; Efficient Cause, "Normative" or Legal Cause, and Preparatory Cause

VI; Efficient Cause Without Effect; Cause But Not Circumstance

VII; Complex Cause and Shared Causes; Cause that Distances to Effect

VIII; Actuating Cause; Liberating Cause

IX; Preparatory Cause (Not in Torts); Utilizing Cause and Inviting Cause; Preparatory Cause and Preventive Cause

X; Spiritual Efficient Cause and Spiritual Preparatory Cause

Summary

About This Text

Author: Eliezer Berkovits

Torat HaHiggayon BaHalakhah (Logic in Halakhah) is a late 20th-century Hebrew work by Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Berkovits that analyzes talmudic and halakhic concepts through the lens of logic. Berkovitz examines talmudic concepts like indirect damage (dina degarmei) and cases like that of a person who throws someone else’s coin into the ocean, explaining them within a framework of causation theory.

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