Circumventing the Law William T. Whitley Their close professional relationship

Their close professional relationship

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Circumventing the Law William T. Whitley Their close professional relationshipCircumventing the Law probes the rabbinic logic behind the use of loopholes, the legal phenomenon of finding and using gaps within law to achieve otherwise illegal outcomes. The logic of ha'aramah, a subset of rabbinic legal circumventions mostly defined as a tool for private life, underpins both well known circumventions, such as selling leaven before Passover, and lesser known mechanisms, such as designating an animal intended for sacrifice