T. Belman. What impressed me most about this article was the elegant prose it contains.
Prose aside its about the Reform Movement and its future.
Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch sees his unapologetic Zionism as the key to Reform Judaism’s survival and flourishing, while others see it as a betrayal of the movement’s universalist aims
ARMIN ROSEN, TABLET JANUARY 26, 2022
“Here’s what I learned from decades of studying and embracing liberalism: The liberal mindset is one of openness and doubt,” Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, a flagship of the Reform Movement, said during a Friday night sermon not long ago. “True liberals are never so sure of themselves. We acknowledge and embrace complexity. It’s why we rely on science and evidence. Every place where people live requires repair. One of the key insights of liberalism is that I could be wrong. And I am open to being convinced.”
while reading the article, I could not help thinking……. If the reform movement and Rabbi Hircsh stood in the wilderness at the foot of Mt Siani where they would have stood and if the ground, they stood on was stable. I think not!