A Comment on the NY Jewish Week's "Conservative Movement: Yes Gay Marriage, No Shabbat Tech" (June 5, 2002)
Rabbi Menachem Creditor
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/conservative_movement_yes_gay_marriage_no_shabbat_tech
Those who see the nuance of Modern Jewish Law as inauthentic are missing the grandeur embodied in Conservative/Masorti Judaism, not to mention the pervasive nuance and case-law approach found in most codes of Jewish Law. The outliers are those who read flexibility out of Judaism. To paraphrase/conflate Emanuel Levinas z"l & Rabbi Elie Spitz: what makes Torah (aka, the unfolding narrative of the Jewish People) holy is neither its origin nor its form but rather its infinite potential.
Those who see the nuance of Modern Jewish Law as inauthentic are missing the grandeur embodied in Conservative/Masorti Judaism, not to mention the pervasive nuance and case-law approach found in most codes of Jewish Law. The outliers are those who read flexibility out of Judaism. To paraphrase/conflate Emanuel Levinas z"l & Rabbi Elie Spitz: what makes Torah (aka, the unfolding narrative of the Jewish People) holy is neither its origin nor its form but rather its infinite potential.
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Rabbi Menachem Creditor
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