Meta-Halakhah: Logic, Intuition, and the Unfolding of Jewish Law

by Moshe Koppel

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Genres: Jewish

180 pages, Paperback

First published December 28, 1996

About the author

Moshe Koppel, Ph.D. (Mathematics, Courant Institute of New York University, 1979; B.A., Yeshiva University) is a member of the Department of Computer Science in Bar-Ilan University. His published work focuses on Talmud studies and algorithmic methods of authorship attribution. In 2012 he cofounded the Kohelet Policy Forum, a Jerusalem-based conservative-libertarian nonprofit think tank, and serves as its chairman.

Reviews

[Tzippy · Rating 4 out of 5]

It took me forever to get through this book, sometimes only managing to get through 1-2 pages a week, but I'm glad I finished it. (The last chapter made it worth it.)

[Akiva Weisinger · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fairly well-reasoned view of how halakha works, impressively synthesizing a variety of sources in an interesting manner. Halfway through, becomes about religious existentialism, which isn't a bad thing per se. Also, hilarious fake haskamah in the back.