Parashat Vayishlach: Family tradition or divine law?
The law forbidding eating the sciatic nerve was in place also in Jacob’s family many years before the Revelation at Mount Sinai, but at Mount Sinai it was validated by God.
THE TORAH’S commandments are not equal in value to traditions and customs created by people. (photo credit: GERSHON ELINSON/FLASH90)ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
