March 17, 2025
What Makes Halakhic Loopholes Religious?
People make fun of legal loopholing all the time, especially during tax season. But what about halakhic loopholes? In advance of Pesach, we will take a look at the DNA of halakhic loopholing in Talmudic sources – what justifies it and what doesn’t – with an attempt to understand how legal circumvention and legal integrity went hand-in-hand for Chazal. This 3-session course is based on the instructor’s book Circumventing the Law: Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity.
