معرفت ادیان

"Religions with Sharia" determine the limits, powers, and duties of believers in the form of a set of laws. Jurisprudence is a science responsible for identifying and expressing these laws, and the sources of jurisprudence are a group of texts, documents, and references that are used to extract, compile, and interpret these laws. Since behaviors in a religious community are regulated based on them and believers consider themselves obligated to observe the rulings derived from them, the sources of jurisprudence play a fundamental role in determining the frameworks and regulations of religious behaviors. Now, considering that Judaism is a religion with a broad Sharia and has defined numerous frameworks in broad areas of Jewish life, we must see what the jurisprudential sources of this religion are and what status and prestige each of them has? The following article answers this question using a descriptive-analytical method and, by examining the written sources of Jewish jurisprudence, concludes that the Bible is the main source of Jewish law, the Talmud is the second source after the Bible, the Baraitas are supplementary sources, and the commentaries and canons are interpretative and operational sources of Jewish jurisprudence, which, in this way, have a level of religious validity and, together, help to deduce Jewish rulings.