“…the process of Talmud…can have real world value, and that, as full participants in a riven civil society, we should see it as our obligation to realize that value”

I do want to suggest that the process of Talmud, which I understand in part as an effort to engage all the conflicting passions of humanity tempered by displacing their conflicts into textual interpretation, can have real world value, and that, as full participants in a riven civil society, we should see it as our obligation to realize that value. This may not be the time, the place, or the issue, but if not now, then when, where, and about what?

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper, “Race and Policing in our Democracy: An Orthodox Reflection”, moderntoraleadership (26 December 2014) [https://moderntoraleadership.wordpress.com/2014/12/26/race-and-policing-in-our-democracy-an-orthodox-reflection/]