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Av bet din

Subject Religion » Judaism

DOI: 10.1111/b.9780631187288.1992.x

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(“Father of the law court”) Title conferred on the president of an ecclesiastical court. During the period of the second Temple the title was given to the vice-president of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem. In gaonic times it designated the assistant to the gaon of the academies in Babylonia and Israel. From the 14th century a local rabbi, the head of a yeshivah, or the district rabbi of a large community used the title. In the modern period the head of a rabbinical court is called av bet din or rosh bet din. ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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The Blackwell Dictionary of Judaica

Edited by: Dan Cohn-Sherbok
eISBN: 9780631187288
Print publication date: 1992

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