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introduction to this volume, pp. 14-15.

14. Theologische Gutachten, p. 109. This same point, using similar language is made in the Talmud of the Land of Israel, Yoma 39:2 and Yebamot 12:1, for example.

15. Ibid. p. 36.

16. Ibid. p. 78.

17. Solomon A. Tiktin, Darstellung des Sachverhaeltnissess in seiner hiesigen Rabbinate­Angelegenheit, Breslau , H. Richter, 1842. A general introduction to the debate with a translation of some of the texts may be found in W. Gunther Plaut , The Rise of Reform Judaism, New York , WUPJ , 1963.

18. See especially the opening piece by Friedlaender.

19. Rabbinische Gutachten, pp. 21-22, repeated on p32.

20. Ibid., p. 24

21. Ibid., p. 151

22.:1vi4d., p. 82.

23. Yearbook of the CCAR, V. XXV, 1915, p. 81. 24. Ibid., V. XXVI, 1916, p.133.

25. Encyclopedia Judaica , X, p.1142.

26. The Responsa Committee report begins on p.

27. Yearbook, V. XXIV, 1914, pp. 152-154.

28. Yearbook, V. XXVIII, 1918, pp. 117f.

29. The reference to his being sick appears as the beginning of his committee report as recorded in the Yearbook, V. XXXIX, 1919, p. 74. At this time he introduced a written supplement to his responsum of the previous year addressing the issue of tipat dam. This supplement appears on pp. 86-87 of the Yearbook

30. Yearbook, p. 79.

31. Yearbook, V. XXX, 1930, pp. 108-112.

32. Yearbook, V. XXIII, 1913, p. 183, emphasis in original.

33. Jacob Lauterbach was ordained by the