David Friedman has just posted on this. As it turns out, the debate about finding “creative” loopholes of Biblical law is isomorphic to the controversy over constitutional interpretation in the U.S.
Is there a rabbinical school analogous to the “living constitution” school?
The left wing of the Jewish Committee on Law and Standards, which is in turn a part of the American sect called Conservative Judaism, comes close.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Halakha#Difference_in_methodology_from_Orthodoxy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Jewish_Law_and_Standards#Process
David Friedman has just posted on this. As it turns out, the debate about finding “creative” loopholes of Biblical law is isomorphic to the controversy over constitutional interpretation in the U.S.
Is there a rabbinical school analogous to the “living constitution” school?
The left wing of the Jewish Committee on Law and Standards, which is in turn a part of the American sect called Conservative Judaism, comes close.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Halakha#Difference_in_methodology_from_Orthodoxy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Jewish_Law_and_Standards#Process