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“Greeters of the Law”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 July 2019
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Chaim N. Saiman, Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018) 320 pp., $29.95 hb, ISBN 9780691184364. Page references appear in parentheses within the text.
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5 Ibid., 24.
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