出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：This article presents an examination of two major working ideas of rabbinical Judaism: a) humankind lives through an endless spiritual decline since the days of our pious forefathers (yĕridat ha-dorot); b) in matters of legal adjudication, the opinion of active legal decisors (posĕqim) is the one and only to be followed, even if divergent from earlier authoritative sources (hilxeta kĕ-vatraˀe). My examination of the nature and present currency of both ideas will be led by the poignant halakhic problem of the agunot (“chained women”). Rather than a thorough epistemology of both ideas, I will favour an argument which highlights the paradox of the link between authority and scholarship in rabbinical Judaism.
关键词：Declive de las generaciones;jurisprudencia rabínica derecho judío;fuentes rabínicas;Halajá;Decline of the generations;jewish law;rabbinical sources;Halakhah
