[Avodah] The Main Idea of Judaism

[Joel C. Salomon]

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
> This question is sparked also by my reading R' Dr Gidon Rothstein's
> "We're Missing the Point: What Wrong with the O Jewish Community and
> How to Fix It" (Ktav 2012). R/D GR rules out using aggadita (such as
> Hillel and the geirim) because it often uses exageration to make a point,
> and tries to derive an incontravertible answer from halakhah, looking
> at the mitzvos that apply more often or that have the greater oneshim.
>
> I have problems with the notion that there is one right answer. But in
> that part of the book, before getting to the "how to fix it" part, RGR
> effectively raises the question of how one would find /any/ right answer.

For those (such as myself) who have not yet read RGR's "We're Missing
the Point", he previously developed those ideas in a series of essays
at <http://blog.webyeshiva.org/tag/the-mission-of-orthodoxy-project>.
(The list there is in reverse-chronological order, I'm afraid.)

—J. Chesky