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to in so pluralistic time as ours, since our covenant relationship to God is as a people, it implies some common way of Jewish living."(40) Actually Eugene Borowitz is not entirely sure that we are living in a post-halakhic world perhaps it is a pre-halakhic situation in which we found ourselves and"a day might come when a sufficient number of Jews trying to live in covenant come to do things in a sufficiently similar way that there customs begin significant for them and other Jews to take into account in determining their Jewish duty."(41) Borowitz ’s covenant is based upon the individual’s commitment expressed more in a theoretical than in a practical halakhic manner.
As we turn to Emil Fackenheim (1916-) we see a figure who was educated in Europe but has spent most of his adult life in North America and now resides in Israel . His philosophical works deal with post-Kantian issues and of course with the Holocaust . Halakhah plays a definite role in his Jewish thought. It is the response in. the God -Israel relationship,"Moral law, mediated through the leap of faith, becomes the divine law to man. Halakhah is Jewish custom and ceremony mediated through the leap into Jewish faith; and it thereby becomes the divine law to Israel ’(42) For him halakhah is the human response and in a sense Jewish gift to God . The laws have a