takkanah
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A takkanah (, pl. takkanot, 'improvement') is a major legislative enactment within halakha, the normative system of Judaism's laws. A takkanah is an enactment that revises an ordinance that no longer satisfies the requirements of the times or circumstances or which, being deduced from a biblical passage, may be regarded as new. A takkanah is enacted by a rabbinical decree or ordinance to improve and preserve religious life. It is, therefore, the antithesis of the gezerah (). The term is applied also to the institution provided for in the enactment.
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- Introduction
- Biblical taqqanot
- Second Temple period (excluding biblical figures)
- Tannaitic period
- By topic
- Regarding women
- For the "preservation of the order of the world"
- For "the sake of peace"
- Facilitating repentance
- Business ''takkano''t
- Ordinances relating to commerce
- Ordinances relating to civil law
- Ordinances on the oath
- Relating to [[Passover]]
- Miscellaneous ordinances
- Post-Mishnaic ordinances
- In modern times
- See also
- References
A takkanah (, pl. takkanot, 'improvement') is a major legislative enactment within halakha, the normative system of Judaism's laws. A takkanah is an enactment that revises an ordinance that no longer satisfies the requirements of the times or circumstances or which, being deduced from a biblical passage, may be regarded as new. A takkanah is enacted by a rabbinical decree or ordinance to improve and preserve religious life. It is, therefore, the antithesis of the gezerah (). The term is applied also to the institution provided for in the enactment.
Takkanot were enacted even in the time of the Second Temple, those of unknown origin being ascribed to earlier leaders, and they have been promulgated at all subsequent periods of Jewish history.
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