Q&A: Several Long Questions…
Several Long Questions…
Question
Hello Rabbi, lately I’ve been reading your writings and wanted to clarify a few things:
A. Does the Rabbi have a written and detailed doctrine about his attitude toward Judaism? About his innovation—how is the Rabbi different from other rabbis?
B. Why did the Rabbi stop teaching in Yeruham?
C. What is the Rabbi’s attitude toward the state? Toward Jewish nationalism?
D. What does the Rabbi think about the idea that we are at the beginning of the redemption, that the state is the clearly revealed end?
E. To which halakhic rulings is the Rabbi committed, and why?
F. Is there a World to Come? What is there there? And what attitude should one have toward all the rabbis who explained what it is over the generations?
G. What attitude should one have toward Reform Jews?
H. What does the Rabbi think about “HaKav”?
I. Are there things in Judaism/Jewish law that are no longer relevant?
Thank you very much, and sorry for the length…
Answer
These are general and not serious questions. It’s impossible to answer all of these here, and almost all of them have already been answered here on the site. Briefly:
A. What kind of question is that? The closest thing is my trilogy.
B. I left Yeruham for personal reasons.
C. It is explained in detail here in several places, and also in the trilogy.
D. As above.
E. Too general a question.
F. I don’t know. I assume others can’t know either.
G. They are mistaken.
H. A cult. See column 19.
I. See the trilogy.