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Date Posted: 21:10:31 05/28/03 Wed
Author: schwabra
Author Host/IP: 1Cust221.tnt2.cincinnati3.oh.da.uu.net / 67.241.46.221
Subject: A timely question
In reply to: Don 's message, "So what about the laws---" on 09:00:08 05/28/03 Wed

I was just at a lecture dealing with modernity in Judaism on Tuesday.

Here is the example used:

An accepted law in the US has always been that a person can name their heirs. A man named his son as his only heir. The son killed his father and tried to claim the inheritance. A principle in the law is that a criminal should not benefit from their criminal actions. So in this case one law, naming an heir, was superceded by the principle that there should be no benefit to the criminal from his actions.

This is a common way used to interpret laws in Judaism. An extreme example would be homosexual rabbis living openly in their congregations. There are prohibitions of homosexuality in Judaism, but there is a larger principle of equality for all of mankind in the Torah.

In modern times this has taken the form of giving equality to homosexuals. This would not have been imagined in the times of the writing of the Torah. Jews have always learned o live within the larger community of which they are a part.

So the laws themselves are never static. The principles that are behind them do continue to remain constant.

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  • Re: So what about the laws--- -- sjk, 10:47:50 07/07/03 Mon
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