First, we will focus on tension between the way that a maverick, as an individual, relates to the facts of the world and the way that most others relate to those same facts.
For example, what a maverick finds pleasurable others might find repugnant or mutatis mutandis.
Primary sources are available through the links in both WORD format and pdf. In class we will translate and explain these sources.
(In our second session, we will focus on the tension between maverick or minority opinions in halacha and the mainstream or majority opinions.
To what extent are minority or maverick opinions acceptable?)