The major support of Reform and Conservative Judaism comes from Musar Ethical books of traditional Judaism
I mean the major principle of Reform Judaism is what? That between man and your fellow man comes before between Man and God. This is the exact same principle of Musar.
The Chafetz Chaim brings this from the verse, "You should walk in his ways, and keep his mitzvot."
The command to walk in his ways we know is the commandment: "What is he? Kind. So you too should be kind."
R. Chaim Vital (the disciple of Isaac Luria) in chapters one and two of his Musar book Sharei Kedusha makes the same point. And the great Yemenite Kabalist, R. Shalom Sharabi, goes into this exact point in detail. He says the soul of a person is his character traits. The mitzvot are simple the clothing and food of the soul but not the soul itself.
Reb Chaim Vital says, "One must be more careful to stay away from bad character traits than be keeping positive and negative commandments because bad traits are very much worse that sins."
Reform Judaism is right about Ethical Monotheism. This is first of all true. Also it is what the Torah is about. But Reform is wrong in ignoring the Oral Law and the efforts of the Sages to understand Divine Law. Also-It is bourgeois. They have no Gra, or Chaim from Voloshin, or Issac Luria, Israel Abuchatzaeira. No juice. No taste. The batteries need charging.
And it ignores the most important aspect of Torah the holy numinous aspect.
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Also "social justice" is an 1840's invention of two catholic priests meant to replace noble obligation (Noblesse oblige). It is not the main idea of the Torah, nor the prophets, nor the writings.
In spite of this I would only pray in a Reform temple or a Conservative one. I would run from the insane religious world like one runs from a charging leopard. That is just how frightened I am from them.
And it would not matter if the only mikvah in town was in an the insane religious world (Synagogue). I would still simple refuse to go anywhere near the the insane religious world for shear and utter terror what they would do to my immortal soul.
The Sitra Achra just got too much intertwined with the insane religious world until it is impossible to separate the two.
This fact is hidden to many religious people because they think their approach is based on Talmud and Halacha. They are unaware that it is not based on Halacha at all but rather it takes a few halachas and rituals to cover up a vast body of Sitara Achra. The few halachas they do only serve to cover the real essence.
This was not always the case. Before the time of Shabati Tzvi things were straightforward. But after his time the energy of teachings of the Shatz (Shabati Tzvi) got totally entwined with the insane religious world . What makes this almost impossible to know is that people today rarely every learn the books of the Shatz and his prophet Natan from Gaza. But if you have had the sad experience of A reading those misguided books then you can see right away how the most basic teachings of the Shatz are part and parcel of the insane religious world today.
I mean the major principle of Reform Judaism is what? That between man and your fellow man comes before between Man and God. This is the exact same principle of Musar.
The Chafetz Chaim brings this from the verse, "You should walk in his ways, and keep his mitzvot."
The command to walk in his ways we know is the commandment: "What is he? Kind. So you too should be kind."
R. Chaim Vital (the disciple of Isaac Luria) in chapters one and two of his Musar book Sharei Kedusha makes the same point. And the great Yemenite Kabalist, R. Shalom Sharabi, goes into this exact point in detail. He says the soul of a person is his character traits. The mitzvot are simple the clothing and food of the soul but not the soul itself.
Reb Chaim Vital says, "One must be more careful to stay away from bad character traits than be keeping positive and negative commandments because bad traits are very much worse that sins."
Reform Judaism is right about Ethical Monotheism. This is first of all true. Also it is what the Torah is about. But Reform is wrong in ignoring the Oral Law and the efforts of the Sages to understand Divine Law. Also-It is bourgeois. They have no Gra, or Chaim from Voloshin, or Issac Luria, Israel Abuchatzaeira. No juice. No taste. The batteries need charging.
And it ignores the most important aspect of Torah the holy numinous aspect.
.
Also "social justice" is an 1840's invention of two catholic priests meant to replace noble obligation (Noblesse oblige). It is not the main idea of the Torah, nor the prophets, nor the writings.
In spite of this I would only pray in a Reform temple or a Conservative one. I would run from the insane religious world like one runs from a charging leopard. That is just how frightened I am from them.
And it would not matter if the only mikvah in town was in an the insane religious world (Synagogue). I would still simple refuse to go anywhere near the the insane religious world for shear and utter terror what they would do to my immortal soul.
The Sitra Achra just got too much intertwined with the insane religious world until it is impossible to separate the two.
This fact is hidden to many religious people because they think their approach is based on Talmud and Halacha. They are unaware that it is not based on Halacha at all but rather it takes a few halachas and rituals to cover up a vast body of Sitara Achra. The few halachas they do only serve to cover the real essence.
This was not always the case. Before the time of Shabati Tzvi things were straightforward. But after his time the energy of teachings of the Shatz (Shabati Tzvi) got totally entwined with the insane religious world . What makes this almost impossible to know is that people today rarely every learn the books of the Shatz and his prophet Natan from Gaza. But if you have had the sad experience of A reading those misguided books then you can see right away how the most basic teachings of the Shatz are part and parcel of the insane religious world today.
