[Ancesthntr]

“Mr. Sameth is a Reform rabbi. That is all one needs to know.”

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Exactly. He may be a very bright person, but the essence of Reform Judaism is to deny the Divine Revelation at Mt. Sinai. You do THAT, and you’ve denied the Torah, and thus denied all of Judaism (except the bagels & lox). IOW, Reform Judaism isn’t really Judaism - IMHO.

This guy does NOT speak for me, or for any Orthodox Jew that I have ever known.

[HiTech RedNeck]

There is such a range of philosophy that is seen in the group going under that worldly name.

Their “fault” is not in denying the Sinai encounter, but to contextualize it in a way that Orthodox deny.

The real question is: who gets what the Lord intended here? Moses warned those people that they could not keep the Law. They claimed they could. The playing out of history has shown who was right. “Reform” somehow senses there has to be a remedy for this, but does not quite grasp what the remedy is. But neither do “Orthodox.”