Inner Space by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan zt"l, Part 6: This is a particularly
significant section.
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*The Deeper Meaning and Purpose of Free Will.*
*Connecting to Hashem with a Different Form of Dveykus.*
*Spiritual and Conceptual Proximity.*
*Digressions...
5 hours ago
only question is what took them this long. Did something happen recently that was the last straw?
ReplyDeleteAny way Eytan Kobre has been doing the grunt work on this, very capably IMO, for years.
...and Avrohom Gorimer, over at cross-currents.com
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DeleteThe last straw was a recent joint event with a Reform group at which their leaders extolled the importance of accepting intermarried Jews into the community and not judging them harshly.
ReplyDeleteHow long ago? Link?
ReplyDelete“There was no precipitating event. This has been mulled by the Moetzes for many months,” Shafran wrote. “I suspect they held off as long as they could in good conscience, in the hope that the new movement might backtrack on some of its positions and statements but finally decided that that simply was not happening.”
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