[Avodah] Jewish law has evolved

[Zev Sero]

"Evolved" implies an improvement, to a form more adapted to survival and 
therefore better.  The Jewish view of the way halacha has changed over 
the years is one of devolution; both when we become more lenient because 
we don't care as much, and when we become stricter because we need it to 
correct our tendency to leniency, or because we have lost the knowledge 
on which our ancestors' leniency depended ("ein anu beki'in").


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Zev Sero            Wishing everyone a *healthy* and happy 5781
zev at sero.name       "May this year and its curses end
                      May a new year and its blessings begin"