tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post112340985513309608..comments2023-10-29T11:50:25.742+02:00Comments on My Obiter Dicta: To Be a JewJeffrey R. Woolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315625918870195028noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1123746855286610552005-08-11T10:54:00.000+03:002005-08-11T10:54:00.000+03:00what about the Rambam's incessant battles againts ...what about the Rambam's incessant battles againts the karaites? he clearly considered them tinokot shenishba (see his statements regarding the halacha of מורידין אפיקורוס לבור ואין מעלין אותו) yet he waged an incessant battle against them.<BR/><BR/>When does secular zionism become the karaite movement of today? what re the red lines? it's not enough like RAL does to say that there are red lines - they need to be defined.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1123680954038033402005-08-10T16:35:00.000+03:002005-08-10T16:35:00.000+03:00You don't get my point. I'm talking about a common...You don't get my point. I'm talking about a common culural language (cf. Intro to Pereq Heleq and Moren Nebuhim III, 31). All of that has nothing to do with Conservative and Reform.Jeffrey R. Woolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11315625918870195028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1123675364548085192005-08-10T15:02:00.000+03:002005-08-10T15:02:00.000+03:00Are you suggesting that the Rambam would have agre...Are you suggesting that the Rambam would have agreed to the halachic innovations of Reform and/or Conservative Judaism?!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1123573108435341852005-08-09T10:38:00.000+03:002005-08-09T10:38:00.000+03:00I disagree. We have an obligation, as Rambam said,...I disagree. We have an obligation, as Rambam said, to reach all Jews in terms to which they can consent. But then, I guess I'm a 'moderate Hellenizer."Jeffrey R. Woolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11315625918870195028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1123572629817415042005-08-09T10:30:00.000+03:002005-08-09T10:30:00.000+03:00everything you wrote is what the anti-semites said...everything you wrote is what the anti-semites said about the Jews in Europe (and elsewhere). They lived in segregated communities, they wouldn't share their knowledge with others, etc. etc. what you wrote could be what Haman said to Achasverosh (above and beyond what's written in the Book of Esther). What's the difference?<BR/><BR/>We have no reason to breast-beat about the irrational hatred of the left, just like we have no reason to breast-beat over irrational semitism. Breast bneating and cries of לא התנחלנו בלבבות will just harm US more than it will help anyone else. We need strong leadership now - macabee type of leadership - that is willing to say מי לה' אלי loud and clear. Not wimpy, weak leadership crying over a bit of spilt milk.<BR/><BR/>But, yes we should abandon the acceptance committee at every religious communal yishuv that still has one and allow anyone and everyone to come and live with us. On that I will agree. That is the only point where religious zionism erred - was in allowing acceptance committees for yishuvim (on both sides of the green line). and you know that the rabbi of our town has said that those yishuvim have the worst "youth problems" - as opposed to the "open" towns. I heard him say it and it is true.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1123510129854358542005-08-08T17:08:00.000+03:002005-08-08T17:08:00.000+03:00We are partly to blame because we: 1) abandoned th...We are partly to blame because we: 1) abandoned the rabbinate to the Haredim 2) Segregated in homogenous enclaves and, most importantly, 3) failed to create a form of Modern Orthodoxy here that could share the Torah in a way that commanded othe rspect of others.Jeffrey R. Woolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11315625918870195028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1123484463615904032005-08-08T10:01:00.000+03:002005-08-08T10:01:00.000+03:00Historically, Jewish common sense usually dictated...Historically, Jewish common sense usually dictated that it was always wrong to "breat beat" and accept the blame for cauisng anti-semitism (even partly). It was always understood to be a pathology. Can you please explain why "Jewish anti-semitism" is different, and why this time the "Jews" have to accept the blame partly?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1123483167366833662005-08-08T09:39:00.000+03:002005-08-08T09:39:00.000+03:00You wrote "the Israeli newspaper of record, Haaret...You wrote "the Israeli newspaper of record, Haaretz".<BR/><BR/>Haaretz is not a paper of record. It is a radical leftist rag.Cosmic Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13880746347107372827noreply@blogger.com