To: justiceseeker93; blasater1960; SJackson; rmlew; ncfool; dalight; Yaelle
Quite true. Reform Judaism is born of liberalism and a desire to assimilate. The result of the
Khmelnytsky Uprising and the later wars in Poland that killed perhaps as many as half of the 200,000 Polish-Lithuanian Jews was a breakdown of Traditional Orthodoxy and a rise of mystical ones. It gave us the Hasidic movement as well as a swell of disorganized Messianic zeal that led to widespread acceptance of Shabatai Zvi and Jacob Frank. Reform Judaism is the opposite of this.
37 posted on
09/04/2009 12:35:41 AM PDT by
rmlew
(“Democracy tends to ignore..., threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed)
To: rmlew
The result of the Khmelnytsky Uprising and the later wars in Poland that killed perhaps as many as half of the 200,000 Polish-Lithuanian Jews was a breakdown of Traditional Orthodoxy and a rise of mystical ones. It gave us the Hasidic movement as well as a swell of disorganized Messianic zeal that led to widespread acceptance of Shabatai Zvi and Jacob Frank. Reform Judaism is the opposite of this.Very interesting. I don't remember Paul Johnson covering this in the History of the Jews.
Where did you read about this?
38 posted on
09/04/2009 8:32:17 AM PDT by
dalight
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