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To: Ilaine who wrote (110916)	4/24/2005 11:53:49 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 794050

Perhaps the Catholic Church took a cue on infallibility from the SCOTUS (or maybe vice versa). ;^) If the SCOTUS ever ruled that the SCOTUS rules infallibly from the bench then I definitely missed that one -g-

To: Ilaine who wrote (110916)	4/30/2005 8:34:45 PM
From: Moominoid	Respond to of 794050

Rabbis are essentially lawyers/teachers trained in the Jewish Law. The main thing you need to study get semikhut is the Shulkhan Arukh the Code of Law written in the 16th century and the many commentaries on it. Another major code is the Mishneh Torah written by Maimonides. These are based on the Gemara which is commentary on the Mishnah (Mishnah+Gemara = Talmud). The Talmud is an additional tradition, the oral law but the Bible is used as a basic law or support for the opinions of the different Mishnaic Rabbis (0-2 century AD). Dayanim are Rabbis who are judges in the religious courts or Beit Din. The system of law is called Halakha. In Orthodox Judaism the same law is binding everywhere, there are very small differences only between Ashkenazi and Sepharadi tradition concerning particular customs. In Israel the religious courts have complete power over family law for everyone registered as Jewish (you have to register as some religion...). Outside Israel the Batei Din can also act on civil cases (not religious ritual or marriage) if the parties agree. My father went with a dispute over his mother's will with his half sister to the Beit Din in London... but then she refused to accept their judgement... so they ended up fighting in the English courts :) I don't have detailed knowledge of the Islamic system. Sharia = Halakha. The Hadith is a similar oral tradition etc....