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הרב יונה בן זכריה
זכר צדיק לברכה
I note with sorrow the recent passing of Rabbi Eugene B. Borowitz, one of the giants of contemporary Reform Judaism.
As he told the rabbinical students whom he taught, “We need to guide Jews in the difficult art of maintaining an intense loyalty to Jewish tradition, that of living by a deeply Jewish faith, while freely assessing the virtues of the various modern ways of interpreting it — and within this continuous dialectic process to find the personal and conceptual integrity of what it means to be a modern Jew. The problem of modern Jewish thought is one of how we affirm the best of what the modern world has taught us while simultaneously maintaining our commitment to the covenantal tradition that is at the base of genuine Jewish belief and practice. How can we be simultaneously modern and authentically Jewish?”
To those who mourn his passing - המקום ינחם אתכם בתוך שאר אבלי ציון וירושלים
I note with sorrow the recent passing of Rabbi Eugene B. Borowitz, one of the giants of contemporary Reform Judaism.
As he told the rabbinical students whom he taught, “We need to guide Jews in the difficult art of maintaining an intense loyalty to Jewish tradition, that of living by a deeply Jewish faith, while freely assessing the virtues of the various modern ways of interpreting it — and within this continuous dialectic process to find the personal and conceptual integrity of what it means to be a modern Jew. The problem of modern Jewish thought is one of how we affirm the best of what the modern world has taught us while simultaneously maintaining our commitment to the covenantal tradition that is at the base of genuine Jewish belief and practice. How can we be simultaneously modern and authentically Jewish?”
To those who mourn his passing - המקום ינחם אתכם בתוך שאר אבלי ציון וירושלים
