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Urgency of the research. A debate on religious sources of law is unfolding within the humanities nowadays. Many scholars of religious law understand this problem quite simply but it is not so obvious and easy to understand.

Target setting. In addition to the search for religious foundations of any law and the study of related religious-legal normative systems, we also consider one of the fundamental aspects of religious law, namely the phenomenon of its sources in the example of Jewish law.

Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. The subjects of the study of the nature and sources of law in general, religious and Jewish law in particular, have been and are still being addressed by the following researchers: V. P. Glinyany, I. Sh. Shifman, M. Varyas, P. Barenboim, M. N. Marchenko, D. Y. Primakov, V. V. Vorobyov, I. Y. Kozlikhin, A. S. Danielian, H. Bekhruz, S. Golovin, S. Misevich, V. A. Nersesyants, Y. Zablotskaya, M. Elon, P. Glenn, G. Davis and other.

The research objectives. The purpose of the article was to investigate the problem of the relationship between Divine and human will as sources of Jewish law.

The statement of basic materials. In the Bible the source of the law is the One God, that is the idea of the transcendence of law has a completely radical expression. The law is based on the will of the Creator God. Society development is considered by experts to be the foundation that objectively leads to the disappearance or change of the old and the emergence of new spheres of regulation, norms, institutions or branches of law. This paradigm of law development applies to Jewish law, but even more so to Jewish law concerns the danger of emasculation and formalization of any religious right over time and the work of interpreters. Thus, some rabbinical structures (such as the Sanhedrin) did not create new laws, but merely interpreted the existing code but their activities led to a change in the qualitative component of this right.

Conclusions. As a result, the nature of the sources of Jewish law was established at an early (biblical) stage and later (post-mundane) stage of its development, the patterns and causes of changes at the level of sources of law were revealed, theological understanding and explanation of such processes was offered. The value of such research was the illumination and characterization of the process of establishing and forming such boundaries and their displacement in the plane of sources of Jewish law.

Keywords. The will of God, the sources of Jewish law, Jewish law, biblical law, post-Talmudic law, theology, human free will.

 

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