Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity by Abraham Joshua Heschel

Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2011-08-28T16:00:00+00:00

Let us search for the source of all these trials and sufferings, and we shall find that a state of dissolution prevails in the midst of us; that an evil spirit pervades our camp, which has split us into two parties. There are those of our brethren who expend all their energies in solving talmudic problems and in writing numberless commentaries and novellae dealing in minute distinctions and interpretations, full of useless subtleties as thin as cobwebs. They diffuse darkness instead of light, and lower respect for the law. Others, again, clothe the Torah in strange garments, deck it with Grecian and other anti-Jewish ornaments, and endeavor to harmonize it with philosophy, which can only be detrimental to religion and lead ultimately to its decay.65

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