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Post 2: The Framework - by Moshe Koppel - Moshe’s Substack

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Halacha develops through the interaction of internalization and crystallization

In my previous post, I asserted that the four issues regarding the future of Judaism that were raised at the party are really facets of a single problem. Let’s dig into that now. My argument depends on a simplistic but useful model of how halacha actually develops that I spelled out at length in Judaism Straight Up (if you haven’t read it, nu nu nu). I also had the narrator say it in his own drunken way in Chapter 11 of Part 1, but I’ll sum it up more briefly and soberly here. Halacha is neither a fixed code that communities simply apply, nor a free-floating set of intuitions and…

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