general principles, only briefly alluded to in the Torah , by means of which the sages of each and every generation may work out the updated particulars applicable to their day."?
This may well serve as a challenge to the sages of our day who are called to apply the creative principles of halakhah to assuaging the pain of this troubled generation.”
1. Brief to the Supreme Court of Israel , High Court of Justice Case No. 47/82, 5784, Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism vs. Chief Rabbinate of Israel, Chief Rabbinate Brief p. 3, par. 8 and p. 5.
2. Sifra Behukotai, Leviticus 8:12.
3. Shabbat 104a
4. J. Peah 2:6
5. Menahot 29b
6."Jewish Law: A Synthesis", Conservative Judaism and Jewish Law, ed. Seymour Siegel, New York , 1979, pp. 118-120.
8. Ibid., p. 245
9. Brief on behalf of IMPJ in above mentioned case(footnote no. 1) and my article,"The Halakhah in the View of Progressive Judaism, "(Hebrew ) Shalhevet, September, 1987 No. 34, pp. 4ff.
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