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Halakhic Process, New York , 1986, pp. 83ff and Mark Washofsky’s penetrating analysis in the following chapter.

21. Baba Matzia 104a, cf. Tosefta Ketubot 4:9 and J. Yevamot 15:3: see also Yitzhak D. Gilat,"The Interdependence of Halakhah and Reality"(Hebrew ), Studies in Cultural Educational and Social Problems, Tel Aviv , vol. 4, 1972.

22. Gittin 26b

23. Berachot 63a; Rashi on Yoma 69a; Temurah 14b; See Eliezer Berkovits , Halakhah , It’s Power and Purpose(Hebrew ), Jerusalem ,

1981, pp. 76ff. 24. Leviticus 5:23, Gittin 3:18. 25. Gittin 51a-51b, Tosefta Gittin 3:18.

26. Taanit 3:1, J. Sheviit 10:3; v. Y. Gilat,"The Influence of Reality on Halakhic Distinctions", Molad, 3, Sivan 5730, p. 285.

27. Berachot 19b

28. Shabbat 45a

29. Responsa Haramah(ed. A. Ziv), Jerusalem , 1971, No. 125, pp. 488-495. An English translation of this responsum is found in Solomon B. Freehof , A Treasury of Responsa, Philadelphia , 1962, pp. 113-117.

30. Among those who have developed this subject are Eliezer Berkovits , op. cit., notes 14 and 23; Yitzhak Gilat, Bar Ilan Annual Ramat Gan 1970, pp. 117-132 and op. cit. notes 13 and 21; Louis Jacobs , op.cit. notes 6 and 7. This subject is further elaborated in my article in Shalhevet, op.cit. note 9 and in the chapter entitled:

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