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Menachem Elon was an Israeli jurist and Professor of Law specializing in Mishpat Ivri, an Orthodox rabbi, and a prolific author on traditional Jewish law . He was the head of the Jewish Law Institute of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Elon served as a justice of the Israeli Supreme Court from 1977–1993, and as its Deputy President from 1988–1993. In 1983, he was a candidate for the President of the State of Israel. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. November 1923 – 6. February 2013
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Menachem Elon Quotes

“the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty enacted in by the Knesset in 1992, to anchor in a Basic Law the values of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state two strands – the Jewish heritage and the democratic tradition… and it is the task of the courts to interweave them into the synthesis indicated by the Basic Law”

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see: Menachem Elon, English translation of Jewish Law : History, Sources, Principles / Jewish Publication Society, 1994

Law

“The body of the legal system needs a soul and sometimes even an additional soul”

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see: Neshama yeterah ba-mishpaṭ / Mozaiḳah, 2003

Soul

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