[Avodah] Ki Avadim HaYitem

[Micha Berger]

R Moshe Yehuda Gluck <mgluck at gmail.com>:
:                          Similarly, if a movement believes in
: egalitarianism or social justice it can still be called Orthodox -
: but if it doesn't believe in one of the 13 Ikkarim, it is not.

And then, Rn Shoshana Boublil, in the very next post to reach the chevrah:
: Many many halachot regarding how we are supposed to treat the OTHER, in the 
: Torah, include this sentence: "...b/c you were slaves in Egypt.. and I took 
: you out..."
...
: In our current situation, shouldn't we, the religious community in Israel, 
: take it upon itself to at least discuss the issue?  It looks like the 
: political leadership hasn't a clue what to do.  Isn't this the kind of thing 
: where religious Jews shouldn't keep quiet?

One assumes that embracing social justice is a goreia, the other,
a chiyuv.

The flaw in RMYG's lumping social justice with feminism is that
accomodating feminism means seeking what's mutar but never been done.
Pursuing social justice doesn't inherently raise such temptations for
envelope stretching.

-mi

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