 He held services regularly in the hall of the school, and introduced confirmation exercises.His literary works were also devoted to the advocacy of Reform on the basis of rabbinical Judaism.With this object he wrote his "Shulḥan 'Aruk," in which he essayed to prove that the Talmud as a whole was untenable, but that a compromise with modern ideas could be effected in the same dialectical way in which the Rabbis had harmonized the Law with the exigencies of their time.