Robert Gordis, ‘A Dynamic Halakhah: Principles and Procedures of Jewish Law’

Originally published in the Jewish Law Annual 4 (1981), pp. 328-9. R. Gordis, “A Dynamic Halakhah: Principles and Procedures of Jewish Law”, Judaism 28/3 (1979), 263-282.—G. maintains that a century and a half of historical research has revealed the process by which Jewish law has grown and the factors that stimulated its development. He claims that…