Works
- Seridei Eish ("Remnants of the Fire") Responsa dealing with halachic questions addressed to Rabbi Weinberg from all over the world concerning the great problems of modern life - technological, social and personal. It was first published in four volumes by Mossad Harav Kook in Jerusalem (1961, 1962 and 1966 - just before Rabbi Weinberg's passing) and has been republished as Shut Seridei Eish (1999). "These four volumes have already become classics in the world of halachic literature... Like all great responsa works, are - apart from their intrinsic halachic value - a faithful mirror of the time in which they were written and no doubt will become a fertile source for the research of future Jewish historians and sociologists".
- Mechkarim beTalmud ("Investigations of the Talmud") documents Rabbi Weinberg's studies on Talmudical methodology. It was published in 1938 while Rabbi Weinberg was rosh yeshiva of the Orthodox Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin. This publication laid the foundation for Rabbi Weinberg's responsa. It contains not only a great number of sugyos, explained in a novel manner, but may be considered a handbook on Talmudic methodology. This work is considered "no less classical than his responsa". In it, "the traditional Lithuanian and the modern scientific approach to the study of Talmud became an organic unity".
- Other works by Rabbi Weinberg include:
- Chidushei Baal "Seridei Eish" (Jerusalem, 2005).
- Li-ferakim (2002); discussions on mussar, aggada and midrash, and contemporary issues.
- Kitvei ha-Gaon Rabbi Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg zatsal (Scranton, 2003).
- Pinui atsmot metim (Berlin, 1926).
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