Shavua tov!
So finally I finished the whole book as my #ShabbatReading. It’s really good. I recommend anyone who is interested in how #Halacha fits into Progressive/Reform/Liberal #Judaism. I found his argument very persuasive.
#Babka #Mazeldon #Jewdiverse #ShavuaTov #JewiahLaw #Theology #Aggadah
This is my #ShabbatReading.
“During the same period when the Church Fathers were drawing a razor-sharp distinction between correct doctrine and heresy, while taking a Paulinian, antinomian vote about matters of law, the Rabbis were defining with the utmost precision what constitutes correct action, while permitting virtually unrestricted freedom of speculation in theology.”
- Rayner, 1998, Jewish Religious Law: A Progressive Perspective, p. 29
This Abraham Joshua Heschel quote is from "God In Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism"
Abraham Joshua Heschel was one of the most revered religious leaders of the 20th century, and God in Search of Man and its companion volume, Man Is Not Alone, two of his most important books, are classics of modern Jewish theology. God in Search of Man combines scholarship with lucidity, reverence, and compassion as Dr. Heschel discusses not man's search for God but God's for man--the notion of a Chosen People, an idea which, he writes, "signifies not a quality inherent in the people but a relationship between the people and God." It is an extraordinary description of the nature of Biblical thought, and how that thought becomes faith.
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