Timeline for Publicly Teaching Halachah
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| Dec 27, 2012 at 7:42 | comment | added | Isaac Moses Mod | @Annelise, these are very good questions that force me to try to articulate defenses for modes of behavior and thought that I generally take for granted. This comment box hasn't enough space to do these questions justice, but: I endorse this answer of Monica's. I don't think we aspire to analytic certainty of "what God wants" in each matter, but to using the right process to estimate that. In addition to the guidance of a personal Rabbi, what the community of Torah-observant people does (as cited here) can constitute a mimetic tradition. | |
| Dec 26, 2012 at 2:16 | comment | added | Annelise | Isaac Moses, when you say there are sources to rely on, and some (many?) communities have decided they are fine with teaching Torah to gentiles, but then there is also the original prohibition and whatever weight it holds... how do you judge between the opinions without being swayed simply by what is most convenient? How do you know what God wants in this matter, and what sorts of judgments from the past are binding? Sources going in opposite directions are an interesting event in Judaism, and I don't know what you're meant to do with them when looking for the authority you're under. | |
| Jun 16, 2012 at 2:19 | comment | added | TRiG | Ah. Language has always fascinated me. Didn't occur to me that that was a direct translation. Hiberno-English has been similarly influenced by Irish. | |
| Jun 15, 2012 at 23:33 | comment | added | Isaac Moses Mod | @TRiG, indeed, it occurs to me that this construct is a straight-up translation of a phrase that is common in Hebrew. | |
| Jun 15, 2012 at 23:19 | history | edited | Isaac MosesMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
more standard English
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| Jun 15, 2012 at 23:18 | comment | added | Isaac Moses Mod | @TRiG Looks like it's an instance of Judeo-English. Sorry about that. | |
| Jun 15, 2012 at 22:33 | comment | added | TRiG | It was your grammar that confused me. There seems to be at least one word missing. We have judgements on which to rely, We have people on whom to rely, or something .... | |
| Jun 15, 2012 at 0:57 | comment | added | Isaac Moses Mod | @TRiG, there are authorities on Jewish law who support the position that teaching Jewish law in public is not forbidden. We can rely on their rulings to be confident that, at least according to them (but really, probably according to pretty much everyone in this case), we're OK in doing so. | |
| Jun 15, 2012 at 0:19 | comment | added | TRiG | we have on whom to rely. TRiG is confused. | |
| Feb 3, 2012 at 20:17 | history | answered | Isaac MosesMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |