Emet Ve-Emunah: Statement of Principles of Conservative Judaism

Commission on the Philosophy of Conservative Judaism

1988

Halakhah (Jewish Law)

The Indispensability of Halakhah

Halakhah consists of the norms taught by the Jewish tradition, how one is to live as a Jew. Most Jewish norms are embodied in the laws of the Bible and their rabbinic interpretation and expansion over the centuries, but some take the form of customs, and others are derived from the ethical…
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Commission on the Philosophy of Conservative Judaism

Established 1985

The Commission on the Philosophy of Conservative Judaism was an organization of rabbinic and lay leaders whose goal was to delineate the principles of the Conservative movement, producing guidelines in its publication three years later.

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