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From: yba@mit-athena.ARPA (Mark H Levine)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Where Are the Non-Orthodox (& Why)?
Message-ID: <230@mit-athena.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 00:31:47 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  6 00:31:47 1984
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The non-orthodox are right here.  The orthodox maintain a body of culture
and knowledge, not to mention law.  Who knows what contains needed wisdom
or the color of a Jew?  It all stays alive as long as some keep it alive.

As for taking issue, don't be silly.  Those who believe they have the word
of God directly from God, with His approved annotations by men, cannot
argue meaningfully with those who think those same men have the word of
mere men.

Whether it is God or random chance that has endowed you, you are given a
mind to think with and a heart to feel with.  There is no way for you to
find out from whence these came by using them.  So practice as you feel
you must, and don't do to anyone else what you would not suffer him to do
you.

I would send my kids to an orthodox Chedar (any transliteration you like)
so they learn who they are descended from and what our people believe.
I intend for them to choose their own way.  I hold a lot of hope for
Zen Judaisim.

You should find hope in the fact that experts disagree....

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