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writing Hebrew ethical wills developed.

the modern philosophy that everything-one-wants-one-may-have,

That’s Judaism!—a little pedagogy, a little pageantry, a little fantasy, a little realism;

Were Jewry just a family, one could not join Judaism. Either one is born into a family or one is not. Such a pattern would make Jews a “master race” and turn the Torah into a doctrine of tribal improvement.

The sum of the Rabbis’ educational and halachic efforts was that participation in religious life was democratized.

movements. The answer lies in a historic redefinition of the term “Orthodoxy.” In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, certain traditionalist rabbis began to reassess the fruits of Emancipation. And they found its social and ethical values not so wanting. Individualism, liberalism, and universalism—the hallmarks of modernity—turned ou

A major factor in the colossal moral failures which made the Shoah possible was the nonresponse of the bystanders.