10 Responses to “How Would You Succinctly Describe Torah Judaism?”

1. DK
   January 13th, 2009 @ 1:19 am

   Judaism based on rabbinical interpretation.

2. Michoel
   January 13th, 2009 @ 10:49 am

   An initial thought…

   “Chesed v’Emes Nifgashu”
   Torah Judaism: Balancing Kindness and Truth

3. Bob Miller
   January 13th, 2009 @ 1:28 pm

   Torah Judaism is that Judaism which takes the Torah (Written and Oral) to be true and binding, and not subject to the type of reinterpretation that would make it conform to other ideologies or human desires.

4. G
   January 13th, 2009 @ 3:21 pm

   The most pleasurable life imagineable.

5. Neil Harris
   January 13th, 2009 @ 3:29 pm

   Check out the section titled “The Problem” in R Aryeh Kaplan’s IF YOU WERE GOD booklet.

6. David Linn
   January 13th, 2009 @ 6:10 pm

   You can find “The Problem” from If you Were God here.

7. Steg (dos iz nit der šteg)
   January 13th, 2009 @ 11:26 pm

   My lead sentence would probably be something along the lines of “We live in a covenant with the Creator.”

8. micha
   January 14th, 2009 @ 12:55 pm

   1- It is the nature of good to have a recipient
   2- We were created to receive good
   3- The ultimate good is the Image of G-d
   4- Therefore we can’t just receive, Hashem gave us an opportunity to finish the job, to imitate the Creator
   5- Thus, we must perfect our relationship with Him, and our relationship with others — to both receive and to give.
   6- Which in turn requires perfecting ourselves, the sole part of the relationship we can change
   7- Halakhah is a tool for doing so
   8- Because of the above, halakhah is produced in partnership between G-d and man.
   9- History is a process from Adam to the messiah.
   10- Perfecting the world requires cooperation, and thus one can’t be a Jew without being part of the community

   -micha

9. tffb
   January 18th, 2009 @ 1:33 am

   Hillel said veahavta lireacha komacha is the whole torah vidach pirusha zil gemor

10. Neil Harris
    January 19th, 2009 @ 1:59 am

    Re: Comment #6

    THANKS, DAVID.

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