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Change and reform from a tactical perspective

שו”תCategory: generalChange and reform from a tactical perspective
asked 6 years ago

Hello Rabbi, I started reading “No Man Has Dominion Over the Spirit” and so far I can’t stop.
I just wanted to ask if it wouldn’t have been worthwhile to avoid the thing that caused people like Yeshayahu Leibowitz to be immediately expelled, since they created the feeling that in order to live more correctly according to their system, you must leave your religion, or at least the ideological stream to which you belong, and join a completely different and new stream, which currently has 1 known member (the thinker himself).
It should be noted that my question is not substantive, although I feel that such a question may arise after I finish the book and can say that I can stand by the lines of your doctrine, and I would also be interested in receiving a response to this, whether there is nothing wrong with presenting an independent religious position and whether “one’s own faith” (as claimed about Prof. Leibowitz) can provide a solution to a religion that has existed to this day through tradition (I came up with a shocking formulation due to my failure to define the last question, but I hope you recognize the problem to which I am referring in the question)


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מיכי Staff answered 6 years ago
I’m not sure I recognized it. If that’s what I think, then that’s what I think. Are you asking whether it’s worth thinking what I think? The wording sounds a bit problematic. Or do you mean to ask whether it’s worth writing what I think? I think so, otherwise I wouldn’t do it. Many find value and benefit in it, so it’s probably not a group of one person. And whoever doesn’t want to, don’t read. Cheers.

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רפאל replied 6 years ago

I meant to ask whether we should declare "reform" with a loud voice, or try to wrap it in quotes from the old world. In the essential matter, I meant to ask whether, if I come to the conclusion that only I and a few friends understand the Torah properly, will it still have value as the Torah of Moses and the people of Israel, or will I have to acknowledge that Judaism is its own

מיכי replied 6 years ago

In general, there is no need to make a fuss or cover up. Simply write/say what you think. The rest is a question for the publicists.
If you come to any conclusion, do so. I don't know what "Judaism as such" means. This is a general and not well-defined question, and I see no point in dealing with it.

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