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Spotlight On...
Prayer:
Prayer is affirmation of belief in the possibility of change.
Prayer helps us to focus on what is truly important.
Judaism:
Judaism is devotion to the Jewish people, Torah and God. Reconstructionist
Judaism puts a modern, American spin on the 3 elements:
- Reconstructionists are above all, devoted to the survival
of the Jewish people. Be tolerant and loving to ALL people. One
cannot do that by embracing the "chosen people" concept.
- Torah is not a book dictated to Moses by God. It is written
by the Jewish people, for the Jewish people. Torah expresses the
beliefs and hopes of the Jewish people.
- God Science has changed the way we look at the world.
We now can view the world in terms of abstract processes. There
is something in the world - a process, a force -- which helps
us in efforts to be kind, decent human beings. People have a passion
for freedom and justice and a desire to make this world a Kingdom
of God. God is a process which makes for freedom, justice, righteousness,
kindness, love, compassion, humanity and peace. Everything good
is associated with the process of God. God has nothing to
do with evil.
Freedom and the Jew
And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh and said unto him: How long
wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? Let my people go that
they may serve me! (Exodus 10)
Since the exodus freedom has spoken with a Hebrew accent. (Heinrich
Heine)
A mighty longing for freedom is what characterizes the Jew. (Judah
Magnes)
The character of a people derives, in large part, from the circumstances
under which it is born. The people of Israel, having been born in
bondage, has the love of freedom and the sense of human dignity
deeply engraved in its consciousness. (Mordecai M. Kaplan)
Congregation M'Vakshe Derekh
133 Popham Road
Scarsdale, NY 10583
914-725-3064
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