bogus comments on The Shabbos goy - Less Wrong

35 Post author: PhilGoetz 26 March 2010 04:16PM

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Comment author: bogus 29 March 2010 09:17:06PM 4 points [-]

David Friedman has just posted on this. As it turns out, the debate about finding "creative" loopholes of Biblical law is isomorphic to the controversy over constitutional interpretation in the U.S.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 30 March 2010 05:34:34PM 0 points [-]

Is there a rabbinical school analogous to the "living constitution" school?

Comment author: Mass_Driver 30 March 2010 06:02:18PM 0 points [-]

The left wing of the Jewish Committee on Law and Standards, which is in turn a part of the American sect called Conservative Judaism, comes close.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Halakha#Difference_in_methodology_from_Orthodoxy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Jewish_Law_and_Standards#Process