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"Extricate the precept from the abstract"

January 22, 2013
by Arthur Kurzweil

 

In so much of Halachah (Jewish Law) the inclination is to extricate the precept from the abstract and bring it down to the objectively concrete. 

–Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
 
From "On Faith and Blessing" in In the Beginning by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz