Law before Happiness https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2014/03/law-before-happiness/

March 5, 2014 | MIchael J. Broyde

About the author: Michael J. Broyde is a law professor at Emory University where he is the Berman projects director in its Center for the Study of Law and Religion. He is a rabbi and was the director of the Beth Din of America, and he has been involved in a variety of religious matters in the Hasidic community as a rabbinical court judge.

Judaism stands or falls by obedience to the law, but a concern for happiness can temper and help orient Judaism’s relation to the law.

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