Finding Tradition in the Modern Torah World

Finding Tradition in the Modern Torah World

PorBoruch Clinton

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Between the 17th and 18th Centuries, there was an explosion of innovation in Jewish practice that followed the introduction and popularization of the Tzfas schools of kabbala. I might be wrong, but I can't help thinking that a Jew from the year 1650, miraculously transported to a thriving Torah community in 2023, would wonder whether he was still among Jews. Everything would look, sound, and feel so different. That's all fine. But what I would like to see is a world where it's also normal and acceptable for a Jew to choose to live according to the traditional principles of pre-Tzfas Judaism. There should be room in such a world for other - newer - traditions. But loyalty to the innovations of Tzfas should never be a test for loyalty to God's Torah. I'm looking for a way to agreeably acknowledge my neighbors' strange innovations while passionately embracing the traditional approach of Rabbi Hirsch.

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Fecha de publicación
Nov 20, 2019
Idioma
English
Categoría
Religión y espiritualidad
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Por (autor o autora): Boruch Clinton

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92
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Color de interior
Blanco y negro
Dimensiones
Comercial EE.UU. (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)

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