Question
Original-language term required. Reconstructionist Jews refer to a state that is “post-” this system, while Modern Orthodox Jews, like the author of a book titled for its namesake “Man,” treat it as intact. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this system that is applied in a beth din (“bait DEEN”). Experts called poseks or dayans often consult the Shulchan Aruch (“shool-KAHN ah-ROOK”) while using this system to determine the scope of kashrut (“kash-ROOT”) and mitzvot (“meets-VOTE”).
ANSWER: halakha (“ha-la-KHA”) [or word forms such as halakhic]
[10e] This text, now usually studied with the Brisker method, provides a major source for halakha. This compendium of the Oral Torah includes the Mishnah and the Gemara.
ANSWER: Talmud [accept Babylonian Talmud or Talmud Bavli; accept Shas or Shisha Sedarim]
[10h] Joseph, an influential American scion (“SY-on”) of this rabbinical “dynasty,” defended halakha in The Lonely Man of Faith and Halakhic Man. The Brisker method was created by a Belorussian member of this family named Chaim (“KHA-eem”).
ANSWER: Soloveitchik (“saul-oh-VAY-chick”) family [or Solowiejczyk family; accept Chaim Soloveitchik or Chaim Sołowiejczyk; accept Joseph Ber Soloveitchik or Yosef Dov Soloveitchik]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 24 | 12.08 | 88% | 33% | 0% |
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| Johns Hopkins | Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Waterloo | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Chicago D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Claremont Colleges | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech | Brown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State | Northwestern | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland | Illinois | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Truman State | McGill | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Minnesota B | Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | NYU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard | North Carolina B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Arizona State | Ottawa | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida | Penn | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rutgers | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| South Carolina | Chicago C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| North Carolina A | Stanford | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Texas | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt | Kentucky | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia | Duke | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |