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It Doesn't Have To Cost A Fortune... Only Look Like It! Featuring • Wall Units • Bedrooms • Dining Rooms • Home Theatre • Tables • Offices Lois Haron 248-851-6989 Allied Member ASID tise in Jewish Tradition and the whole body of Halachah; they must be truly committed to observing and preserving the Torah way of life; and they must be those exemplars vvho by their behavior inspire the trust of those in their genera- tion who are fully committed to the observance of the Torah. This exclusive reliance upon human n this week's portion we have beings to interpret, apply and transmit the infamous sin of the Golden the Torah makes it easy to understand Calf and the ultimate reconcilia- why, in the absence of one central tion between God and the Jewish authority, disputes arise, as Maimonides People. As parr of this reconciliation and explains in the Introduction to renewal of the covenant, Moses is told Commentary on Mishnah: "Disputes by God to "carve, yourself, two arise in the understanding of tablets of stone, like the first many matters because the ones that you broke" (Exodus understanding of each one is 34:1). Whereas the first based on his own intelligence tablets were the work of God and his own grasp of the basic and the writing was the writ- principles." Thus, a whole ing of God engraved on the range of acceptable positions tablets" (Exodus 32:16), the may exist on any given ques- second tablets were supplied tion of Jewish Law - again, by Moses. These second tablets assuming the deciders are represented the focal point of qualified. RABBI ELIEZER the holy of holies of the Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, COHEN Tabernacle. They were not the pre-eminent decider of Special to The exclusively Divine, but rather Jewish Law in America in the Jewish News the result of the combined last generation, himself wrote effort of both the Divine and in the introduction to his col- human endeavor. lected Halachic decisions, Egros Moshe: This "joint effort" of the Divine c`. . . the true Halachic decision is that together with the human is seen as the which appears to the Sage, after toil and paradigm of the Oral Tradition (Torah effort to clarify the law in the Talmud She'b'al Peh) and the resultant body of and relevant sources according to his Jewish Law (Halachah). (See Midrash own ability with seriousness and awe of Rabbah [Exodus 47:7] and Ha'amek God: Thus he should render his decision Davar by Rabbi Naftali Berlin of - nay, he is obligated to render his deci- Volozhin [Exodus 34:1]. Based on the sion." Divine precepts and principles received Thus, Halachah is the product of from God in the written Torah and oral- generation upon generation of human ly by Moses, every generation of Jews is intellectual endeavor applied to every told: ". . to come . . . to the Judges conceivable reality that has confront- (teachers) that will be in these days and ed the Jewish People throughout his- inquire . . . According to the teaching tory. It is this human understanding that they teach-. . . you must do, do not and application of the Divine princi- turn aside . . . to the right or to the left" ples inherent in the Torah that makes (Deut. 17:9-11). It is this interpretation, Torah itself the nexus of God and his application and extension of the Divine human creatures. principles and elements of the Torah by human beings that make the Torah itself a living, relevant, vital document by which hundreds of generations of Jews in every conceivable time, place and Would it have been possible for condition could live their lives. Torah and its application to be As the Talmud (Baba Metzia 59B) wholly Divine? makes clear `with the story of the dispute How can man presume to between Rabbi Eliezer and the Sages, "it "speak for God?" . . is not in heaven" (Dew. 30:12) is the To whom do we turn for operating principle for Jewish Law. Even answers to our questions of Jewish "God Himself" can be "out-voted" by observance? Are they qualified? the rabbis in their decisions. 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