MARK WASHOFSKY

71. Solomon B. Freehof , Reform Jewish Practice and Its Rabbinic Background, New York , 1976, V. 1, p. 15. Compare his treatment of prayer in the vernacular(V. 1, pp. 35-40), where there is much rabbinic law on which to rely, to his defense of the late Friday evening service(V. 1, p. 19) and"Sukkah in the Temple"(V. 2, pp. 27-28). Neither of the latter practices is"derived" from rabbinic law, but both are justified, either as halakhically unobjectionable or as symbolically useful.

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