*Post of the Day* "What Judaism Is About", by Brooklyn Wolf
Excerpt:
Judaism is about living up to one's obligations, both personal and communal. It's about providing for our families and about setting up communal institutions such as yeshivos, mikvaos, tzedakas, etc. that serve the community. It's about personal responsibility - just as one is responsible to make sure that he gets up in the morning and davens, so too is one responsible to see to it that (to the best of his ability) his family is fed and cared for, nurtured both spiritually and physically.
Judaism is not about abdicating responsibility. It's not about finding out how many government programs you can cheat your way on to, it's not about finding ways to avoid paying taxes and it's not about relying on the community to carry you.
Read the whole thing.
Thank you for the link, Ezzie!
ReplyDeleteThe Wolf
If Judaism is not about abdicating repsonsibility, not about finding out how to cheat government programs, not about relying on a community to carry you? Then what religion is? I know. ISLAM!
ReplyDeleteDid I write that? Ooops. I know that it's the religion of peace and carrying millions of dollars out of the country while crying that your kids don't have medical care and so on and so forth ad nauseum...