If Orthodoxy is the Answer, What is the Question?
IF ORTHODOXY IS THE ANSWER, Look around .. . look at the astonishing capacity of people who have explicitly entered—and conquered— the most modern precincts of the modern world, and who continue...
...It is the best way...
...We must generate from within Jewish law the kinds of moral initiatives which would serve each new situation and liberate its spark of holiness...
...How unassailably secure one's fortress feels if questions about family planning, the use of heroic life-sustaining measures, or the limits of waging justified warfare can all be answered with the same dualistic "kosher or trefe" with which a "cooking spoon" question is answered...
...It is not enough to generate from within Jewish law ingenious emergency responses to new situations...
...WHAT IS THE QUESTION...
...A SPECIAL SECTION...
...And ii it is the best way, it is the only way...
...Orthodoxy does not love the Jewish people—unless they are Orthodox...
...Maybe I don't look down my nose at people who aren't observant, but once I've come to the decision that what I'm doing is right, then it follows that the people who don't do it are wrong...
...IF ORTHODOXY IS THE ANSWER, Look around .. . look at the astonishing capacity of people who have explicitly entered—and conquered— the most modern precincts of the modern world, and who continue to celebrate the ancient tradition .. . and look also at the degree to which the rest of us have become defensive in the presence of the Orthodox...
...Except for the handful able to adopt the Orthodox way of life in all details and assimilated into Orthodox circles, Orthodoxy has nothing but ugly and unfriendly words...
...We have shown the world that the Torah's NO is NO...
...Now it is time to show that the Torah's YES is YES...
Vol. 3 • September 1978 • No. 9
