[Avodah] Feeling and Judaism

[Prof. Levine]

Judaism does not turn to feeling, is not satisfied with feeling, is 
not a religion of feeling; Judaism turns to the intellect, wants to 
be grasped by the mind to guide the will, to regulate the whole of 
our workaday, breadwinning life with its pleasures and all its 
ramifications and to subjugate it to God's law. Not feeling, only 
cognitive reason, bright with the rays of God's word, can fortify 
against life's trials and temptations awaiting the Jew.

This quote is from page 63 of Modernity Within Tradition by Mordechai 
Breuer, who attributes it to RSRH.



Yitzchok Levine 
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