Anthropocentrism in Judaism
Hello Rabbi Michi!
Do you think Judaism today is an anthropocentric religion?
I feel that today (especially in Hasidism and perhaps in other places) they place too much emphasis on the person and worship him (all kinds of attachments to the righteous, etc.) and in general this whole attribution of holiness to people feels bordering on heretical. A certain rabbi is holy and it is forbidden to talk about him, etc. (It is true that in the passage of the Holy Ones it is said, ” Be holy, for I am holy,” but that is an aspiration.) I’m sorry if I confused your mind.
In this context too, I don’t think we are a chosen people, no matter how much the Khazarian talks about it.
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Sorry I didn't answer, I ate. Eat and don't forget to count!
But how is it that Judaism of at least the pre-modern era (at the beginning of the last days) is not anthropocentric? After all, they say that the world was created for man, etc., etc. Maybe I'm confused, but it seems to me that all this worship of the rabbis and living off their word borders on idolatry
The world is for man, but man worships God. Man puts God at the center of everything. This is not anthropocentrism. This is theocentric. Even if rabbis are praised and they prostrate themselves on graves, Judaism does not put them at the center of their world. Maybe Reform Jews do, but among the Orthodox and Conservatives, they are theocentric. We worship God, we try to reach Him.
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