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Judaism is a human organic system of understandings. It is about concepts and values to orient human life.
Judaism uses cultural instruments such as traditions, religion, and literature, to convey, transfer and keep on developing its particular system.
Who the human being is, what he is capable to do, how does the world function-are understandings produced by accumulative experience.
Though revisions are constant, they happen usually at such a slow path in relation to the shortness of individual human life, that they are mostly not perceived.
There are moments, however, that human life is so radically disrupted that the slow changes in understandings take unexpected turns.
The 21st century is different in that the rate of “the “unexpected,” the need to change and to adapt to them, is faster than in previous periods.
To expect the unexpected, to be ready to adjust to changes is the 21st-century main challenge.
Jacob Neusner has said that “the reason that Judaism has persisted and flourished as the religion of the Jewish people for nearly the entire span of recorded history is that Judaism, in all its forms and manifestations, succeeds in explaining to the Jews the world in which we live.”
A Jewish life ought to be one in which the wisdom and insight of Jewish scripture and Jewish history help us more effectively engage with, and navigate in, the world in which we actually live. It shouldn’t serve as an alternative to that world, a sort of soft Amish- ism by which we retreat to the narrow, particularist concerns of one traditional community.
Joey Kurtzman
The richness of Jewish culture is in large measure due to the variety of communal experiences. The Sephardim developed Jewish approaches to life that are unique and worth not only to be preserved but to continue developing them
Whether one believes or not that the Creator of the Universe wrote a book, the Hebrew Scriptures are arguably the greatest creation of the Jewish people. It is not a catechism but a fundamental for thinking about what it means to be human.
To learn is basic to Judaism. Learning, without acting upon what one has learned is not Judaism. Beginning with: “You shall not stand idly by the blood of your brother.” To, “Hate evil, Love the Good and establish justice in the gate,” Jewish Scriptures delineantes the requirements for being human.
Whereas in the past Jewish weddings were rituals sealing a legal transaction, in the 21st century the Jewish marriage ceremony has revitalized and transformed old symbols into a vibrant and meaningful ceremony.
Judaism is not a series of legends or regulations for a fictional world. It is the wisdo resulting from more than 3000 years of accumulated experience to enable a better life in the present and a clear view of the future. The JSA presents cutting edge Jewish academic research, religious-theological insight, and Jewish culture from literature to music to painting and film
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