Abstract
[...]he sought to recover what he saw as a pristine Sephardic halakhah that would serve as the authoritative-and centralized-body of law that would stand alongside, and perhaps even surpass, the institutions of the state. While his mixed political legacy will continue to refigure not only his historical reputation but the shape of Jewish identity in the Jewish state, one can only hope that ultimately he will be most remembered for his magisterial and humane scholarship, for his sake-and, come to think of it, for Judaism's sake too.