Mimi: היביתימ ...authentic and credible religious leadership. It appears to me that what Joel is describing is a pragmatic approach to creating religious practice that may have little to do with "authenticity" at all. Itay well be the case that what brought the Rabbis to decide that "these an those" are the words of God was the mundane need to institutionaliz religion and religious practice. If this is the case, we see in this passage how Divine authenticity is sacrificed on the altar of social mediocrity.