| Conservative movement in North America and a graduate probably of Yeshiva University in New York. " a law that is alive, and Jewish law has always been and continues to be "a living law", has within itself the built-in power and creativity that enables the "judges of the law" to continually keep applying the law to new conditions. New conditions and circumstances are continually being judged on the basis of the legal principles and concepts upon which the law rests."..." New developments are thus continually brought into the framework of the Torah`s commandments. If that had not been the case, Judaism would have perished a long time ago. The theoretical concepts and points of law that enable rabbis to render judgement as to whether some new development is permitted or forbidden according to the Torah - be it in questions pertaining to the Sabbath or any other area - obviously require great study. Suffice it for us to say that their authority in such matters is based on the passage... |
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