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Originally Posted by Xazy
Hasidic laws? You mean Jewish religeous belief and having a bes din (Jewish court). Yes Jewish communities tend to police their own in many ways, but it does not exactly replace courts. But most stuff there is dealt in house in the hasidic community.
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I stand corrected...I grew up orthodox, but recall the bes din (I forgot what it is was called) being more of a Hasidic institution in Baltimore used to settle family disputes.
Or maybe I recall it from The Chosen by Chaim Potak (a favorite book as a kid)
But it seems comparable to using sharia law to settle disputes among agreeable Muislim in Canada before taking it to the civil courts.
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