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Professor Rabbi Ozer Glickman of Yeshiva University posits a “legal theory” of Torah law that compares and contrasts the ideas of morality, legality, rationality and obligation.

Does Law Have to Make Sense?

Halachah and the limits of rationality

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By Ozer Glickman
Professor Rabbi Ozer Glickman is Rosh Yeshiva and Professor of Talmud, Yeshiva University and senior resident rabbinic scholar at the center of Jewish law and contemporary civilization at Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardazo School of Law.
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August 11, 2011
logic in law
My pup doesn't understand certain prohibitions of mine- no chicken bones, no running the neighborhood off leash, no dog park when certain dogs are present, and more. The prohibitions are for his safety, due to my love for him. They go against all his logic, but I am the one with the big picture.
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