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Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist movement, was the most influential and controversial radical Jewish thinker in the twentieth century. This book examines the intellectual influences that moved Kaplan from Orthodoxy and analyzes the combination of personal, strategic, and career reasons that kept Kaplan close to Orthodox Jews, posing a question crucial to the understanding of any religion: Can an established religious group learn from a heretic who has rejected its most fundamental beliefs?
-As important thinkers in the Orthodox world [the authors] help us to see Kaplan from the vantage point of the world that raised him, New York's Orthodox community. In exploring how its different elements responded to Kaplan, they give us a richer understanding of Orthodoxy. - Jewish Book World
-This fine biography focuses not only on the emergence of Kaplan's unique thought and approach to Judaism but on the larger thought-world of American orthodoxy from which his thinking emerged and with which it stood in continuing debate. The resultant study not only lays bare Kaplan's mind and personality but, equally important, reveals much about the nature of American Orthodoxy. -Choice
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Fahmy Rahim
reviewed A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism on August 29, 2019
A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism
A quick, captivating read about what is essentially one man's spiritual journey. I was particularly inspired by Rabbi Borovitz's recounting of the moments that felt like divine intervention, especially the betting scene in which he chose - or rather, had no choice but? - to go to prison for a second time.
This book was published in 2004, and Rabbi Borovitz recounts a childhood and young adulthood growing up in the 60s and 70s. More than anything else, I was struck by the question of how much has changed since then. Technology, social media, and economic and cultural shifts have created a different environment than that in which Borovitz came of age, and I wonder how youth's spiritual descents and journeys reflect that. What looks different, and what is the same?
This was a thoroughly enjoyable biographic tale, and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys the genre, is beginning to explore or question their own spiritual depths, or is struggling through a dark night of the soul.
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