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Is Talmud the Jewish Constitution? A Conversation with Chaim Saiman

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Is There a Halachic Supreme Court?

Law is always ping ponging between, do we mean law in the narrow sense, and do we mean the deep story sense? And he says, what does it mean to decide the law? He says, i could decide, a court can decide between ruven and shimon, who gets the money. But a court is not very good at deciding thi deep structural narrative. It's too big for it. This i system hangis together, not because of formal state structures, but because of social structures. In otherword, there's no halachic supreme court. A, you know, mahoke between roshon and maron d mensrar. The thing

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