Medieval Jewish philosophers used cryptic writing 1) to protect innocent believers whose faith could be harmed by uncustomary ideas; 2) to protect the philosopher, whose societal standing might be risked through the expression of uncustomary views; and 3) as a normative characteristic of how philosophy was written. This article demonstrates that, in the halakhic literature, this same technique was utilized by halakhic decisors, and for reasons similar to those of philosophers. A contemporary example helps to make the point. Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, one of the most prominent twentieth century rabbis, used this approach for two of the three reasons cited: to protect readers from falling into inappropriate religious practice and to protect his own status in a community that valued halakhic uniformity. Rabbi Auerbach thus exemplifies the use of halakhic crypticity to maintain a distinction between theoretical “decisions rules” and practical “conduct rules.”

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哈拉克隐秘性

中世纪的犹太哲学家使用神秘的文字：1）保护无辜的信徒，他们的信仰可能会受到不寻常思想的伤害； 2）保护哲学家，因为他的社会地位可能因表达不寻常的观点而受到威胁； 3）作为哲学写作方式的规范特征。本文表明，在哈拉克文学中，哈拉克决策者也使用了同样的技术，其原因与哲学家类似。一个当代的例子有助于说明这一点。什洛莫·扎尔曼·奥尔巴赫拉比 (Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach) 是二十世纪最著名的拉比之一，他使用这种方法的原因有两个：保护读者免于陷入不适当的宗教实践，以及保护自己在重视哈拉克统一性的社区中的地位。因此，奥尔巴赫拉比举例说明了如何使用哈拉克神秘性来维持理论“决策规则”和实际“行为规则”之间的区别。