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The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
Judaism itself is a pattern of meaning and direction for human history. Every time there is a major new event or a decisive turn on the road through history, new insights and patterns emerge. These are marked and inserted into the record by adding a new Jewish holiday to the calendar. Thus, the sacred days are the register of Judaism in history.
from The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays by Irving Greenberg
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Jewish religious life has brought forth people who do not fear arraigning even God when there is injustice.
from The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays by Irving Greenberg
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The biblical concept of a lawful world operating as the creation of God, by fixed and reliable principles, was the fundamental assumption needed to conceive the laws of nature and utilize them for human benefit.
from The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays by Irving Greenberg
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Another outgrowth of this covenant concept has been the principle of the rule of laws, not men. If God is bound by the law, then an earthly ruler is not above the law either.
from The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays by Irving Greenberg
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The Sadducees insisted that only the written Torah was authoritative. The Pharisees affirmed that side by side with the written Torah there was a parallel revelation at Sinai of principles and categories with which humans could interpret, apply, and develop the Law. That body of revelation given over to humans was called the Torah Sheh-B’ Al Peh (t
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The Sadducees were aristocratic, connected to the Temple priesthood and the government. The Pharisees were more rooted in provincial Jewish culture.
from The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays by Irving Greenberg
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The Pharisees placed a tremendous stress on learning and on Torah as a way of life. Out of their tradition came the Talmud.
from The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays by Irving Greenberg
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Driven by the dissonance of the continued existence of a suffering world in which abuse of power remained unchecked, Christians ended up changing the very notion of messianism. They translated the concept of messianic redemption into a state of personal salvation, thus removing it from the realm of history. In coming up with this solution, they wer
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The goal is not to flee from reality but to be motivated to perfect it.
from The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays by Irving Greenberg
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