This blog, and idea, should have been a long time coming. Orthodox Judaism is too reactionary, and Liberal Judaism too pandering to the currents of the day. A plurality of Jews have no affiliation to Judaism whatsoever and intermarriage is sky-high. Israel is no longer the glue that can bind Jews together.
What is needed is a revolution. A revolution that addresses all the issue that face Jews and Judaism, and doesn't shy away from any elephants in the room.
We are called in our task to be an Or L'Goyim, a 'Light to the Nations.' Judaism has inspired Christianity and Islam. But right now, they carry the torch. Where is our light? We are too caught up in party politics, the harrows of antisemitism and the Holocaust, and the Israel game to focus on the real goal, our real task.
That goal is the creation of a new Covenant, a true new covenant. A new Covenant between man and G-d. A new covenant between each and every fellow Jew. A new covenant between the entire world. It is time to stop letting the currents sweep us along, and it is time for us to force the tide ourselves. It is time to stop reacting, and start just acting.
The pain does not stop. The separation does not either. We are at once a nation set apart, and a nation diffused throughout the four corners of the globe. We wish for hearts of stone, but what we really need is hearts of flesh. Our wounds will not heal on their own. Neither can we expect anyone else to heal them. It is ours and ours alone.
We have faltered, and we have been lead astray. We have willingly gone astray. It is time to take back that which is ours. The time for blame has ended, the time for action has begun.
We must create anew that which we have lost. We must create from scratch that which we have abandoned.
Though he has tarried, we have waited faithfully. We have waited for that man, that perfect man, to fix us. We have waited for that time, that perfect time, to allow us to flourish. It is time to stop waiting. To wait is not Judaism; it is simply laziness.
To be Jewish is to fight evil. To ask why, to wait, to pontificate and equivocate is to forget mission en totem.
The time has come for a new Judaism.
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2 comments:
i'm having similar sentiments at a variety of sites. only it's christianity that's the target.
i know it pushes the onus on others, but is the failings of the established systems to address the problems the prophets have spoken about over and over again that calls for new responses.
peace--
scott
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