Defending the Law [Part 3]

Law as Asana

This post continues a series begun here and continued here and here.

Let’s take a step back and ask about what I am defending—is it the Law, in the abstract, or something more specific, like Jewish law?

Kafka uses the term “the Law” in the more general, abstract sense, as does Paul. For example, in Kafka’s “Before the Law,” a man from the country seeks ac…