[Avodah] The Kuzari, vindicated

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R' Richard Wolpoe wrote:
> E.G. if you were to claim that Mother Theresa was the greatest
> saint of the 20th century and so people should emulate her.  I
> would counter, it CAN work for any individual but as a people
> the ONLY valid approach is the Torah.

I hope that I'm misunderstanding you.

I agree with you that her approach would not work for us as a people, but it seems clear to me that her approach would not even work for us as individuals. Even a Jewish individual would still be missing many things if we only emulated the Bein Adan LChaveiro that she excelled at.

In other words, I would modify your comment to read: It can work for any non-Jewish individual but for the Jewish people the only complete approach is the Torah.

Akiva Miller