A Vital, Living Judaism Can Be Found When the Voice of the Past
Engages Modern Experience
" This] synthesis of tradition and modernity is not a philosophy
meant to serve as the platform for a new movement or institution,
but a process of living experience among individuals and
communities that choose to adopt its angle of vision. It is a
process that demands constant introspection and renewal and cannot
be branded or co-opted by any formal or official frame of
reference. It stands separate from all expressions of
institutionalized Judaism, as it never knows what new forces it
will absorb as it moves into the future." from the Introduction
Dr. David Hartman, the world's leading modern Orthodox
theologian, presents his own painful spiritual evolution from
defender of the rule-based system of Jewish law to revolutionary
proponent of a theology of empowerment, one that encourages
individuals and communities to take greater levels of
responsibility for their religious lives. In this daring
self-examination, he explains how his goals were not to strip
halakha or the past of its authority but to create a space for
questioning and critique that allows for the traditionally
religious Jew to act out a moral life in tune with modern
experience.
In achieving this synthesis of tradition with the sensibilities
of contemporary Judaism, Hartman captures precisely what creates
vitality in living Judaism and charts the path to nurture its
vitality forever."
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