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I was just having a conversation with Steve about picking names, and Jewish names in general, and we came up with all sorts of nice Jewish boys' names, and very few girls' names. Anyone want to contribute?
I was just having a conversation with Steve about picking names, and Jewish names in general, and we came up with all sorts of nice Jewish boys' names, and very few girls' names. Anyone want to contribute?
I just came across the Hebrew words for Anthropocentric and theocentric in my Hebrew homework. They look Awfully scary, even if they sound almost exactly like the English.
I just came across the Hebrew words for Anthropocentric and theocentric in my Hebrew homework. They look Awfully scary, even if they sound almost exactly like the English.
I feel like I'm almost honor-bound to be thinking about the halakhic process tonight, considering that CJLS is in the midst of making one of those potentially momentous decisions that really address the balance between minimizing change and making too radical change in halakha/making poorly structured changes in halakha. I do worry about people getting too carried away with one side or the other and forgetting the divine-human interaction and the need to be true to Both issues. I remember last year someone saying that the Orthodox movement considers halakha binding, and the Reform movement considers aggada binding, and the Conservative movement considers both halakha and aggada binding, and I disagreed- it seemed to simple and not quite the way I saw things. But as a quick way to express some of the tension that I'm feeling and worrying about- well, it isn't a bad metaphor in its way. I have somewhere where I'm going with this, but I'm not finding it right now. But it's a concern- I'm really worried about what will happen with this coming decision from a halakhic perspective, and from an ethical perspective, and what sorts of precidents that will set, and whether a decision either way will really lead towards a movement that I'll still want to be a part of in 20 years (or possibly even less). And I wonder how not agreeing with a movement one used to be part of changes if one is ordained...
I feel like I'm almost honor-bound to be thinking about the halakhic process tonight, considering that CJLS is in the midst of making one of those potentially momentous decisions that really address the balance between minimizing change and making too radical change in halakha/making poorly structured changes in halakha. I do worry about people getting too carried away with one side or the other and forgetting the divine-human interaction and the need to be true to Both issues. I remember last year someone saying that the Orthodox movement considers halakha binding, and the Reform movement considers aggada binding, and the Conservative movement considers both halakha and aggada binding, and I disagreed- it seemed to simple and not quite the way I saw things. But as a quick way to express some of the tension that I'm feeling and worrying about- well, it isn't a bad metaphor in its way. I have somewhere where I'm going with this, but I'm not finding it right now. But it's a concern- I'm really worried about what will happen with this coming decision from a halakhic perspective, and from an ethical perspective, and what sorts of precidents that will set, and whether a decision either way will really lead towards a movement that I'll still want to be a part of in 20 years (or possibly even less). And I wonder how not agreeing with a movement one used to be part of changes if one is ordained...
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