ABSTRACT
Lecturer, Department of Education, Liverpool Polytechnic. I should like to thank Professor Bernard Jackson for his very helpful comments upon an earlier draft and Ms. Jill Stothard for her great bibliographical assistance. 1 I. Twersky, Introduction to the Code of Maimonides (Mishneh Tor ah), (Yale University Press, 1980), 457. The description of laws as true is not a happy one, given that laws are norms, but it does capture the notion that what gives the laws their force is divine authority quite well. 2 Sanhédrin 56a.
