Thursday, January 6, 2011

Why no orthodox Jew should hate reform or conservative Jewish experiences

I am not endorsing that our religious folks go on to seek experiences with the reform or the conservative or what so forth we have in our religious world nowadays. Rather, I am speaking that those who have these experience are often not ungodly people in the sense that they hate our Creator for who he is.   They clearly do not know Torah and perhaps they dont want to learn or seek rightous religious practices. Rather than blaming the heresy of the reform and conservative movements for corrupting the soul; realize that there is a Jewish prayer in the Siddur which says "do not fear sudden terror, or the holocaust of the wicked when it comes.  Plan a conspiracy and it will be annulled; speak your piecee and it shall not stand, for God is with us" (Page 279. Artscroll Siddur- Sfard.)  To realize that the reform and conservative movements are really a holocaust of the wicked against Torah values is to realize that the formation of these offshoots of Jewish activity are really a conspiracy which will be annulled in time.  I personally believe that as a non orthodox Jew of yesteryear, I was poorly served by true Jewish religous authorities as well as teachers and examples.   It is the duty of religious Judaism to include the non orthodox Jew in his envisionment of the Real Jewish Community and reach out as may be possible in this day and age.  Clearly today, the internet is a very powerful resource.  No Jew should be underserved to the degree that millions of us were as recently as 1997.  I personally have found the internet a great resource for any person striving to be rightous in terms of Torah values and Jewish life.  Nowadays, I look back on the lives of many reform jews who I have the opportunity to know and know that many of them are rightous persons with a God awareness and God love.  Few were knowledgable beyond the auspices of the reform congregation and few had dialogues with other Jewish leaders about their role in Judaism.  We must change this.

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