Emet Ve-Emunah: Statement of Principles of Conservative Judaism
Commission on the Philosophy of Conservative Judaism
1988
Halakhah (Jewish Law)
The Indispensability of Halakhah
Halakhah consists of the norms taught by the Jewish tradition, how one is to live as a Jew. Most Jewish norms are embodied in the laws of the Bible and their rabbinic interpretation and expansion over the centuries, but some take the form of customs, and others are derived from the ethical…
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