[Avodah] Normal People Don't Care About Those Things

[Ilana Elzufon]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 9:26 AM Meir Shinnar via Avodah <
avodah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

>
> 1. the first person I know who is explicit about actions being primary is
> Mendelson. While he is viewed now by many as Reform,in his lifetime he was
> viewed by most to be Orthodox.
>

To the best of my knowledge, Rav Moshe Mendelssohn himself was most
definitely Orthodox (although that term may be a bit anachronistic?), even
if his ideas later became important in the development of Reform. The view
that he himself was somehow Reform seems to be based primarily on ignorance.
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