The Anatomy of Jewish Law: A Fresh Dissection of the Relationship Between Medicine, Medical History & Rabbinic Literature, jointly published by Koren Publishers Jerusalem under the Maggid Books imprint, Yeshiva University Press, and OU Press, is a novel and innovative work in which Rabbi Dr. Edward Reichman traces the medical understanding of anatomy, physiology, and therapeutics across time and genres of rabbinic literature.

The accumulated literature of centuries of Jewish legal discourse on medical topics serves as the foundation for contemporary Jewish bioethics. As these writings span the chronological gamut of scientific and medical discovery, it is essential to view each source in its proper historical context. Marshaling a vast array of sources from multiple disciplines, Rabbi Dr. Reichman demonstrates the importance of the historical dimension for medical halachic [Jewish law] research and helps readers better understand the unique relationship between Judaism and medicine throughout the centuries.

Rabbi Dr. Reichman embodies Yeshiva Universitys core Torah values, and we are thrilled to share his brilliant medical and religious scholarship with the wider community, said Rabbi Dr. Stu Halpern, senior advisor to the provost and deputy director of the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought.

There are dozens, if not hundreds of books on medical ethics available, and many are quoted or referenced in this volume.The Anatomy of Jewish Law, however, seeks to illustrate how halacha has responded to contemporary understandings of the human body, illness, and disease and how, through the rabbinic literature, it has adaptedor why it may seem to fail to do soas science has advanced. The volume includes chapters on topics ranging from ancient and rabbinic understandings of conception and halachic considerations for conjoined twins as they move through life to biblical and Talmudic medicine and the COVID-19 pandemic.

[The Anatomy of Jewish Law] will prove invaluable to rabbis, physicians, and medical historians, as well as anyone wishing to gain an appreciation of the continuing achievements in the synthesis of halacha and modern medicine, said Dr. Fred Rosner, professor of medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, director of the Department of Medicine at Queens Hospital Center and chairman of the Medical Ethics Committee of the State of New York.

Rabbi Dr. Edward Reichman is a professor of emergency medicine and of bioethics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Rabbi Isaac and Bella Tendler Chair in Medical Ethics at Yeshiva College as well as an attending physician in emergency medicine at Montefiore Medical Center. Rabbi Dr. Reichman received his rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and is an internationally renowned writer and lecturer.

The Anatomy of Jewish Law: A Fresh Dissection of the Relationship Between Medicine, Medical History & Rabbinic Literature is available on Koren, Amazon or wherever Jewish books are sold.

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