Governance
Religious independence & community governance
ממשל ועצמאות דתית
Beit Ha'Vaad supports existing Jewish communities and their independent religious authorities. It does not replace them, compete with them, or assign religious authority.
What Beit Ha'Vaad governs
The platform governs only its own infrastructure: verification of credentials and institutional affiliation, moderation against harassment and impersonation, accuracy of source attribution, and the privacy of users' questions.
It does not govern Jewish religious law, recognize a universal halachic authority, validate conversions, or adjudicate denominational disputes. Those belong to the communities, rabbinic courts, and institutions that already hold them.
Separate by design
Community helpfulness
A popular answer is not a ruling. Votes never determine religious truth.
Verified scholarly assessment
Credential verification marks what a scholar was trained in — not whose rulings carry universal weight.
Source verification
Whether a citation actually supports a claim is checked independently of who made the claim.
Institutional authority
Community and organizational affiliation is shown for context, not as endorsement.
Moderation cases are logged with a clear reason code and a reviewer. Reports can be appealed. Repeat-abuse controls, doxxing protections, and provenance checks for scholarly attributions are part of the platform's trust model — described in the security & privacy specification, and wired as sensitive features are connected.