History and Reference

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Primary Sources

• Biblical Sources
• Mishna Tractate Sanhedrin - Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi, 200 CE
• Tosefta Tractate Sanhedrin - Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi, 200 CE
• Jerusalem Talmud - Rabbis of the Land of Israel, 400 CE
• Babylonian Talmud - Rabbis of Babylon, 500 CE
• Rashi on Tractate Sanhedrin - Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki, 1040-1105
• Tosefos on Tractate Sanhedrin - Rabbis of Europe, 1100-1300
• Hilchos Sanhedrin according to the Rambam - Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon (Maimonides), 1138-1204
• Yad Ramah on Tractate Sanhedrin - Rabbi Meir ben Todros ha-Levi Abulafia (Ramah) 1170-1244
• Ramban on Tractate Sanhedrin - Rabbi Moshe Ben Nachman (Nachmanides) 1194-1270
• Rashba on Tractate Sanhedrin - Rabbi Shlomo ben Aderet (Rashba) 1235-1310
• Miri on Tractate Sanhedrin - Rabbi Menachem Meiri 1249-1315
• Tosafot ha-Rosh on Tractate Sanhedrin - Rabbi Asher ben Yechiel 1250-1327 - was an eminent rabbi and Talmudist best known for his abstract of Talmudic law.
• Ritva on Tractate Sanhedrin - Rabbi Yom Tov ben Avraham Asevilli (Ritva) 1250-1330
• [[Bertinoro on Tractate Sanhedrin - Rabbi Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro, 1440-1530
• Tosefos Yom Tov on Tractate Sanhedrin - Rabbi Yom-Tov Lipmann ben Nathan ha-Levi Heller of Wallerstein, Bavaria. 1579-1654

History and development

• The History of the Sanhedrin in Israel - Rabbi Yehuda Yekutiel Greenwald, New York, 1950
• Between Sunset and Sunrise: Chronology of Sanhedrin after the Babylonian Exile - Samuel K. Mirsky, Publishers Sura, Jerusalem - New York, 1951. ‬
• Studies the History of the Sanhedrin - Rabbi Haim Dov Mantel, Publsiher Dvir, Tel Aviv,1968
• The Sanhedrin - Rabbi Avraham Bichler , Rabbi Kook Institute, Jerusalem, 1974
• Ten removals - The Wanderings of the Sanhedrin in the Land of Israel - Rabbi Israel Rosenson, Eretz Hefetz Institute, Jerusalem, 1987.

Renewal

• Maaseh Beit Din - Rabbi Joseph Caro (Maran Beis Yosef)
• [[Iggeres ha-Semichah] Rabbi Yaacov Beirav (Mehari Beirav)
• Kuntres ha-Semichah Rabbi Levi Ben Yaacov stone - Habib (Mharlb"h)
• V'Ashivah Shofetecha - Rabbi Zvi Makovsky, 1937
• [[A swarm of Yaacov part - on Rabbi Yaacov Ben Shraga Piotrkovsky, Atartz"e

    * Renew the Sanhedrin Evmdynatano Mathesat Rabbi Yehuda Leib Hacohen מיימון, Atshi"e (first edition)

• Techumin 18 - Rabbi Moshe Tzuriel, (1997) p. 448-461
• Osot Mishpat - The Renewal of Semichah at this time, Rabbi Zvi Idan
• Renew the Sanhedrin in our days Rabbi Yishai Bavaad, Jerusalem, 2005
• The Sanhedrin Authority and Renewal - Rabbi Yishai Bavaad, Jerusalem, 2005

Theory of Jurisprudence

• Introduction to the Talmud - Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Chajes (Maharatz)
• Ways of Instruction - Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Chajes
• Instruction of the Prophets - Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Chajes
• Words of the Prophets, Words of Kabalah - Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Chajes
• Minchat Knaot - Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Chajes
• Imrei Binah - Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Chajes
• Laws of the State Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Wodinberg (author of Tzitz Eliezer)
• Regime and state in Israel according to the Torah - Rabbi Naftali Bar-Ilan, Publisher Ariel, 2007