One of the best arguments, imho, for Rabbinic Judaisms particular contribution to global activism: the insistence on inductive, instead of deductive, reasoning, of starting with the particulars of real life for real people (Emmanuel Levinas, The Pact, 1982): All generous thought is threatened by its own Stalinism. The great strength of the Talmud’s casuistry is that it is the special discipline which studies the particular case in order to identify the precise moment within it when the general principle is at risk of turning into its opposite; it surveys the general from the standpoint of the particular. This preserves us from ideology. Ideology arises out of the generosity and clarity of a principle, qualities which do not take into account the betrayal which lies in wait for this general principle at the moment of its application. h/t mvr, Rav Elisha Ancselovits
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:14:33 +0000
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