J. David Bleich, ‘Contemporary Halachic Problems’, Vol. II

Originally published in the Jewish Chronicle, 18th May 1984. Despite recurring taunts of “legalism”, Jews throughout the ages have seen in the halacha, the legal side of Judaism, the religion’s most distinctive feature. Judaism has been defined as the religion of doing God’s will, so that the halachic process becomes a mighty attempt, by the luminaries…