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49. Kid. 4b.

50. Kid. 3a, 6b.

51. Adler, Engendering Judaism, p. 176.

52. Ibid. Adler strives for an ethical consistency while looking for a proper halakhic paradigm for marriage. Her solution is very much in keeping with the founders of Reform Judaism, who jus­

tified their changes on the basis of traditional texts. She acknowledges that marriage is legal and not only spiritual and therefore must have a legal framework for its initiation and termination.

53 Ibid., p. 193. 54. Ibid., p. 194. 55. Ibid., pp. 214-15. 56. Ibid., pp. 197-98.

57. Reform Judaism, in fact, has rejected the concept that kohanim have special privileges or restrictions.

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