REMEDIES FOR IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE Laws of Divorce 10:14, based on Mishnah Yebamot 2:8 and BT Yebamot 24b. Maimonides , Responsa, 353 and 372.
10. Although Maimonides does not always distinguish between the Hebrew terms‘aveirah and ‘avon, the latter is generally reserved for a more severe category of wrongdoing(Introduction to the Mishneh Torah, s.v.“u-devarim halalu”). He uses‘avon to categorize shaming a person in public (Laws of Beliefs 6:8), tale-bearing(termed“a great‘avon’; ibid 7:1), slander(ibid 7:2), and so on.
11. Maimonides , Laws of Forbidden Intercourse 12:11, 13. Responsa Moses ben Mordecai Galante(Venice 1608), Responsum 80.
13. Reform responsa collections entitled Brit Emel, Nogah Zedek, and Herev Kokemet HaBrit were published in Dessau from 1818 to 1820.
14. Yearbook of the CCAR, Vol. 1, 1891, p. 119.
15. Yearbook of the CCAR, Vol. 1, 1891, p. 112. See ibid., pp. 106-107, regarding the first
Leipzig synod, held in 1869, which decided that“Chalizah should be dispensed with, being The neglect of chalizah is no impediment to the marriage of the
widow.”
16. Ibid.
17. Maimonides , Hilkhot Issurei Biah 18:3, based on b. Yebamot 60b and Tosefot ad loc s.v. via ‘ama.
18. Moses Mielziner , The Jewish Law of Marriage and Divorce(New York , C incinnati, 1901), p. 60. See above n. 2 regarding this Synod.
19. See Walter Jacob , ed., American Reform Responsa(New York , 1983), Introduction, p. XVi. The Responsa Committee was established in 1906, but its first responsa were published only five
years later.
20. Ibid.
22. Ibid. p. 123.
23. See n. 20 above.