{"id":4576,"date":"2026-07-10T09:15:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/?p=4576"},"modified":"2026-07-10T09:15:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T13:15:38","slug":"the-haredi-reading-of-jewish-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2026\/07\/the-haredi-reading-of-jewish-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The Haredi Reading of Jewish Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In this article available here on Academia.edu<\/a> (free login required for access), Rabbi Yuter offers a sharply analytical review of Steven Resnicoff\u2019s Understanding Jewish Law, praising its clarity and pedagogical skill while arguing that it ultimately reflects a distinctly Haredi model of halakhic authority. He shows how Resnicoff presents Jewish law not as a historically grounded, text\u2011anchored legal system but as one in which \u201cgreat rabbis\u201d function as the real norm\u2011creating organ of the community, often independent of the canonical rules of recognition found in the Dual Torah.\u00a0 Rabbi Yuter demonstrates how Haredi jurisprudence frequently elevates mimetic practice and charismatic authority over explicit legal norms.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the essay becomes an excellent window into Rabbi Yuter\u2019s own philosophy of law: his commitment to halakhah as a genuine legal system governed by identifiable norms, his insistence on textual fidelity and philological precision, and his resistance to models that treat rabbinic authority as infallible or beyond review. In analyzing Resnicoff, Yuter simultaneously reveals the contours of his own jurisprudence\u2014formal, accountable, and grounded in the internal logic of the halakhic canon.<\/p>\n

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The following summary was written primarily by Microsoft Copilot. In this article available here on Academia.edu (free login required for access), Rabbi Yuter offers a sharply analytical review of Steven Resnicoff\u2019s Understanding Jewish Law, praising its clarity and pedagogical skill while arguing that it ultimately reflects a distinctly Haredi model of halakhic authority. He shows Continue Reading »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":4578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,95,82,78,83,77,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[86],"class_list":["post-4576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-denominations","category-halakhah-modern-judaism","category-halakhah","category-modern-judaism","category-philosophy","category-torah-talmud","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t