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In the Old Testament, a man who “gathers sticks” (Num. 4:32 ff.) is considered...
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“The idea that man should rest from his work one day every week sounds to us like a self-evident social-hygienic measure”
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To the modern mind, there is not much of a problem in the Sabbath...
“Shabbat, as seen through the Mishnah, does not prescribe actions”
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Shabbat as framed by the opening mishnah of Tractate Shabbat is not something that...“Judaism has a great deal to offer even those who consider themselves secular”
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Judaism has a great deal to offer even those who consider themselves secular. It...“…a spiritually rich and intellectually open Judaism was kidnapped…”
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I believe that a spiritually rich and intellectually open Judaism was kidnapped and taken...Edgar Bronfman on Rabbi David Hartman on Particularism vs. Universalism in Jewish Thought
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Hartman celebrates Judaism’s essential relationship with the wider world of learning, peoples, and cultures:...Rabbi Avi Weiss on Shabbat as an exploration of the beauty Judaism can bring to the home and family life
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I asked his view about making a Jewish home, something that is elementary to...The Rabbinic Shabbat is “not comprised of positive ritualized actions”
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The Rabbinic Shabbat, as found in the Mishnah and in the Bavli is not...“Instead of focusing on new ideas, the Jewish community would be better served by connecting to the original “big ideas” of our heritage…”
The Jewish community is obsessed with the “next big idea.” But the crisis is not one of theory — the power of Judaism is clear to those truly engaged in its complex struggles and searchings for truth and divinity. Instead of focusing on new ideas, the Jewish community would be better served by connecting to the original “big ideas” of our heritage: Torah, avodah (rituals) and gemilut hasadim (acts of loving kindess), for instance. To put it another way: there is no “new big idea.” There is just investment in the old, but in a serious, meaningful, and thoughtful way.
Elie Kaunfer, “The Real Crisis in American Judaism”, The Jewish Week (7 April 2010), 14.
“Judaism, to be a thick identity,… is not part-time commitment with full-time benefits”
Judaism, to be a thick identity, in the words of philosopher Charles Taylor, is not part-time commitment with full-time benefits. It is the framework and the lens, the core and the vision. Why would you “affiliate” with anything that demands less of you? It’s not about affiliation. It never has been. It’s about meaning and wisdom. And our language must change to reflect this.
Erica Brown, “Part-Time Judaism”, 2013-2014: The Year Gone By…The Year Ahead, A Special Supplement to the Florida Jewish Journal and the New York Jewish Week (27 December 2013), 7.