AUTHORITY AND CRITERIA IN LIBERAL HALAKHAH 11. Tosefta Yevamot 1:11 and parallels. 12. Eruvin 13b.

13. Ibid. 10b; Yitzhak D. Gilat,"The Formation of the Halakhah," Hauma 7:4, lyyar, 5729, p. 455.

14. Not in Heaven, The Nature and Function of Halakhah, New York , 1983,'p. 19.

15."Ethics and the Halakhah," Conservative Judaism and Jewish Law,(note 6 above), pp. 125-126.

16. Cf. my articles"The Halakhic View of Destroying Homes" (Hebrew ), Haaretz, 23 April, 1985;"Demolishing Homes in the West Bank and the Halakhah " in Journal of Reform Judaism, Spring 1986;"Halakhah and Occupation, " Jerusalem Post , 20 May, 1988; and the chapter on"The Attitude to the Gentile Minority" in my forthcoming Hebrew book The Sane Halakhah.

17. Dat Umada, Jerusalem , 1955, pp. 272-275.

18."The Builders," in On Jewish Learning, New York , 1965, pp. 72­92

19. From an unpublished lecture delivered at the Leo Baeck College, London , 24 June, 1985.

19a. Heirs of the Pharisees , New York , 1970, pp. 177-179.

20. Joseph Karo , Beit Yosef Yoreh Deah. 268 end, based on Tosafot to Yevamot 24b. This is related to the Talmudic principle"Ein lo la­dayyan ella mah she-einav ro’ot(The judge must rely only on his own judgement) in Sanhedrin 6b Cf. Ben Zion Uziel , Mishpatei Uziel, Tel Aviv , 1935, part 1, Yoreh Deah, No. 14; Joel Roth , The

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