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BEREL WEIN BEREL WEIN
Jerusalem Post
07-24-2009
The Torah is for all
Byline: BEREL WEIN BEREL WEIN
Edition: Up Front
Section: Features
Memo: Past Perfect. The writer is a noted scholar, historian, speaker and educator.

There are numerous instances in the Talmud when the rabbis state that if a certain behavior is permissible to some Jews, why is it not permissible to all? The Talmud and the Torah itself recognize exceptional circumstances, unusual pressures, differing opinions that need be taken into account, but the Talmud never advocated differing standards of halachic behavior. It did recognize that are different personality needs and differing societal mores. But the Torah was ...

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