[Avodah] Modern Orthodoxy

[Rich, Joel]

Sometimes you hear someone articulate what for you is an inchoate (
imperfectly formed or formulated )  inner voice. In the attached audio
link, you'll find a               beautiful (IMHO) articulation of one
of my favorite themes combining the Rav (R'YBS among others) [our mutual
covenant of destiny ] and Thomas Cahill (Gift of the Jews) and the
concepts of cyclical (halachik) time {clock related} and historical
{covenantal} time. While we may be good at the clock stuff (e.g. daily
prayers) where do we stand in our role as members of a people who have a
covenantal destiny (e.g. bringing the ultimate redemption)? 

Why did Jews stop recording history in any real way after churban?
Perhaps we became cyclical and lost our historical/prophetic voice -
Rabbis  Hirsch, Kook and  Soloveitchik all were moving back to
covenantal/prophetic approach which hadn't been seen in millennia 

His charge to us: build a modern (chochma) chesed society in Israel but
listen to the music of time (The Rav called this  - "God's psak through
history ") and always ask - what does God want of me/us (as individuals
and as members of a covenantal community) now? 

http://www.csstorage.org/audio/downloadaudio.php?audio=21
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Kol Tuv, 
Joel Rich
 
 
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