Originally published in JJSO 35:2 (1993), pp. 154-6. Moshe Z. Sokol, ed., Rabbinic Authority and Personal Autonomy (the Orthodox Forum Series), xiv + 250 pp., Jason Aronson, Northvale, N.J., 1992, n.p. The two main questions to which this symposium addresses itself are: 1) whether the Halakhah, in the sense of rabbinic decision (pesak), is all-embracing—leaving no room…
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