Does Law Have to Make Sense?: Halachah and the limits of rationality
Professor Rabbi Ozer Glickman of Yeshiva University posits a “legal theory” of Torah law that compares and contrasts the ideas of morality, legality, rationality and obligation.
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Professor Rabbi Ozer Glickman is Rosh Yeshiva and Professor of Talmud, Yeshiva University and senior resident rabbinic scholar at the center of Jewish law and contemporary civilization at Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardazo School of Law.
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