But Parashat Re’ehs command neither to add nor take away suggests that halacha, and rabbinic textual reasoning more generally, may need to rein itself in and keep to the text. “Hadash asur min-Torah,” said the Chatam Sofer, and “neither add to it nor take away from it,” says Parashat Re’eh, yet no where in the Torah does it say anything about lesbians or homosexuality in general.
