Thank you for visiting my site! Jewish values have always guided my thinking. What complicates the process of distilling those values is the interpretation of our sacred texts and how it ought to be interpreted. One of the great masters, my teacher, Prof. Eliezer Berkovitz struggled with this his entire life. "...not only does the method of Authority not work, it actually defeats the eternal validity of the Torah. The Torah is eternal because it has a Word for each generation... If they have the authority they impose the Word meant for yesterday and thus miss hearing the Word for today for this generation, for this new hour in the history of the Jewish people..." These powerful words launched me on a lifelong odyssey of listening and learning, in search of the Word and through this process the discovery of Post Denominational Judaism.
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 Hardcore Haredi Hypocracy Most of us were raised on lofty concepts such as “kol yisrael arevim zeh lezeh”, that each Jew has a responsibility to another Jew. Hillel’s golden rule, that if one were to have to sum up all of torah’s wisdom into a few words so that torah can be learned while “standing on one foot” would be “v’ahata l’reacha kamocha”, one should love his neighbor as himself. These and other ethical dictums gleaned from the wisdom of the ages crafted us into a people. It’s peoplehood above anything else that has guaranteed our survival over the ages.
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