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Hasidic groups have myriad customs. While ordinary Jewish law (halakhah) denotes the "e;bar of holiness"e; mandated for the ordinary Jew, these customs represent the higher …
Oaths, vows, promises, curses – all share family resemblances. They are performatives, carrying illocutionary force. Oaths have rightly been termed, "conditional self-curses", …
Hasidic groups have myriad customs. While ordinary Jewish law (halakhah) denotes the "bar of holiness" mandated for the ordinary Jew, these customs represent the higher threshold …