(DOWNLOAD) "Creativity and Cultural Influence in Early Jewish Law. (Symposium: Creativity and the Law)" by Notre Dame Law Review * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Creativity and Cultural Influence in Early Jewish Law. (Symposium: Creativity and the Law)
- Author : Notre Dame Law Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 299 KB
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INTRODUCTION Jewish law maintains that man is obliged to create and to renew the cosmos with his creative enterprise. According to Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, a leading modern authority on Jewish law, "[t]he peak of religious ethical perfection to which Judaism aspires is man as creator." (1) Soloveitchik claims that the Torah chose to relate to man "the tale of creation" so that man could derive the law that humans are obligated to create. (2) The Jewish religion introduced to the world that the "most fundamental principle of all is that man must create himself." (3) According to Jewish law, man was not intended to be a passive recipient of the Torah, but rather "a partner with the Almighty in the act of creation." (4) Significantly, "[t] he power of creative interpretation is the very foundation of the received tradition." (5)