Освітній дискурс (Mar 2020)

THE INTERPRETATION OF DIVINE WILL AS THE SOURCE OF JEWISH LAW IN THE CONTEXT OF THE POTENTIAL OF HUMAN‘S FREEDOM OF WILL

  • hieromonk Dmytro (Frankiv)

DOI
https://doi.org/10.33930/ed.2019.5007.21(3)-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 3
pp. 88 – 102

Abstract

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In the Bible the source of the law is the One God, that is the idea of the transcendence of law has a completely radical expression. The law is based on the will of the Creator God. Society development is considered by experts to be the foundation that objectively leads to the disappearance or change of the old and the emergence of new spheres of regulation, norms, institutions or branches of law. This paradigm of law development applies to Jewish law, but even more so to Jewish law concerns the danger of emasculation and formalization of any religious right over time and the work of interpreters. Thus, some rabbinical structures (such as the Sanhedrin) did not create new laws, but merely interpreted the existing code but their activities led to a change in the qualitative component of this right.

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