Conservative Movement Metaphor

[debka_notion]

I was talking with shirei_shibolim at breakfast this morning, and in discussing the Conservative movement and the "big umbrella" description of said movement, I likened it more to an eiruv- a bunch of different buildings held together by a legal fiction, and was told that the description was worth writing down. So there it is, if anyone finds it interesting, or for when I someday want to retrieve it.

Comments

[hotshot2000.livejournal.com]

Nice. I'm trying to figure out how people who don't believe in eruvin and people who don't hold by them would fit that metaphor.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Many of such people also wouldn't consider Conservative Judaism such a valid variation of Judaism either, so that might work as a valid parallel... For those who do, well- that's where I'm stuck for the moment.

[hotshot2000.livejournal.com]

Hmm -- and for them, the buildings still exist, but they're not even connected any more. Yeah, good metaphor, and as usual, the "outsiders" have a clearer view than the insiders.

Also, legal fictions are designed to accomplish some purpose, so perhaps here the people who disbelieve the fiction don't see a purpose to it any more.