1
Rules concerning hair, dress, and bodily custom belong primarily to ecclesiastical discipline unless some independent civil injury is shown.
2
Circumcision shall not be confused with the ground of covenantal justification in the Besorah tradition; ethnic and household practice must be distinguished from claims of spiritual necessity.
3
Confession concerns acknowledgment of sin for repentance and reconciliation. It shall not be used as a commercial instrument or as a license for abuse.
4
A chief ecclesiastical authority may adapt administrative rules where the received canons permit, but cannot by mere will reverse the foundational confession or make injustice righteous.
5
Rules may be added, suspended, or adapted only within the scope of the authority that created them.
6
No later administrative rule shall be silently rewritten as though it were ancient Torah.