Halakhah is the DNA of of Am Yisrael, and evolves over generations in response to changes in the environment. The mechanism for change however is the individual Jew, or at times, the individual Jewish community. Halakhah is case law, and addresses each individual case on a sui generis basis. But what is most intriguing about all this is that there is no central governing authority, and–even more importantly–no agenda. The reason why this is necessarily so comes from three diverse disciplines: organizational dynamics, mathematical logic, and chaos theory.