However, the Orthodox claim to absolute fidelity to past tradition has been challenged by scholars who contend that the Judaism of the Middle Ages bore little resemblance to that practiced by today's Orthodox. Rather, the Orthodox community, as a counterreaction to the liberalism of the Haskalah movement, began to embrace far more stringent halachic practices than their predecessors, most notably in matters of Kashrut and Passover dietary laws, where the strictest possible interpretation becomes a religious requirement, even where the Talmud explicitly prefers a more lenient position, and even where a more lenient position was practiced by prior generations. COUNT 4
QSN1 what is the name of the movement of liberalism? ANS1 Haskalah QSN2 what sometimes prefers a more lenient position on Dietray laws? ANS2 Talmud QSN3 previous generations typically praciced a more lenient position in regard to what? ANS3 dietary laws QSN4 What are dietary laws known as? ANS4 halachic practices