The Torah is binding as given.
The traditionalist stream: written and oral Torah as divinely given and halakha as fully binding — continuity itself as the argument against every age's pressure to bend.
DeitiesOne God
Founded1800 CE · Central and Eastern Europe
AfterlifeThe world to come
TextsTorah · Talmud · Shulchan Aruch
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The Torah is binding as given.
Written and oral law hold; halakha does not renegotiate with the age.
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Continuity is the argument.
Three thousand years of unbroken practice is itself the case for the practice.
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Davening with tefillin.
Morning prayer with the word bound to arm and brow — the commandment made wearable.
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