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accept apostate aspect assume Avodah Avraham Bava berakhah Berakhot bet din centrist character cited clearly commandment commitment concept concern confronted constitutes contemporary context course defined Devarim divine element ethic existence factor fetus gemara Gentile Geonim gerut Halakhah halakhic Hashem Hazal Hence Hilkhot historical hizdahut hovot Hullin human ideal impact individual Israel issue Jewish Jewish identification Jewry Judaism Kiddushin Knesset Yisrael lifnim mi-shurat ha-din Lord Maimonides meshumad mishnah Mishneh Torah mizvah mizvot modern moral Nahmanides nation Nevertheless normative obligation one's Orthodoxy perspective petition posek position prayer presumably principle problem prohibition question Rabbenu Rabbi Rambam Rashi reference regard rejection relation relevant religion religious respect response to suffering Ribbono shel Olam Rishonim Rosh Sanhedrin scope secular sense Shabbat shemittah Shemoneh Esreh social specific spiritual status Talmud tefillah Tehillim term teshuvah tevilah tion tokhahah toleration Tosafot tradition values Yevamot