How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household
You will watch your parents die and be buried. You will watch your newborn child emerge in a messy circus of heaving grunts and high-pitched wailing. You will watch your dreams and projects dashed, only to wake the next day and greet the fruits of your failure anew and cobble a life out of them all the same. You will punctuate the cavalcade of even
... See moreAll the fine properties of halakha considered above – robustness, adaptability, intuitiveness, and so forth – are possible precisely because halakha is a communal, rather than a governmental, process.
Moshe Koppel • Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures
A robust sense of Judaism as a living organism requires a way for its component parts to connect in dynamic integration; the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. That integrated whole is precisely what halakhah offers us. Without a systemic commitment to contextualize mitzvot in the evolving conversation of the Rabbis across the generations,
... See moreRabbi Bradley Shavit DHL Artson • God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology
Shabbos is a concrete commitment that is life-affirming, joyous, and intensely pleasurable, but also demanding. To receive Shabbos’s blessings most fully, one must be truly open to them, ready to embrace them and ready for the stretch that the embrace entails.