My recent post, "Hirsch in Lakewood" attracted many high quality comments. I am honored that readers of this caliber find this topic and this blog deserving of their well-thought out and pertinent consideration.
Our problem as a community and as a people, I think, is the ever growing proportion of "cold" Jews. It's not that the concepts of Torah, Yirah, Avodah do not speak to these individuals; they are irrelevant to them, their lives, their inner concerns. The sanctum of religious life is foreign to them and receives little of their attention.
"Hirsch in Lakewood" contended that we are going though a paradigm shift. The language of the preceding era no longer speaks to the post-modernist Jew, even if he wears a kapote and peyos and speaks mostly in Yiddish. Like in Rav Hirsch's time, the new generation does not recognize the religious language in which Judaism is being expressed . It is not so much that they do not believe, it is that they see their ancestral religion as being irrelevant, outdated, primitive and meaningless. R. Hirsch's great insight was that the eternal truths of Judaism could be reformulated in the universal language of the times.... and suddenly it again made sense.
Similarly, we live in a post-modern age, in which there is no truth outside of personal feeling and perception, in which the language of image, feeling and sensibility has replaced the parlance of shared assumptions, reason and the common reality of all men.We have opinions and fellings, not reasoned conclusions or received dogmas. For people who take in the world in this manner, the very terms of religious discourse are devoid of meaning. What does obligation, duty, choice, truth, destiny mean to a person who does not recognize these terms as anything more than words.."For with stammering tongue a foreign language I will speak to this people. (Isaiah 28:11)
You might argue that what I am describing is a lack of faith, certainly not a new problem in human affairs. However, it goes deeper. Post-modernist thinking eschews all standards or any possibility of a definitive truth. It is a fog that rots the mind and murders a religious spirit. "kol boeah lo yashuvun..(Mishlei 2:20)
From the teens at risk to adults who are just going through the motions, the problem we face is that wem the religious, the few speak in a foreign language. In as much, as some people still vaguely understand some of these words, they can be on occasion be pulled back into the universe of religious discourse.This is, however, a process of re-education, not of reversion. Others drift outside the bubble of Jewish life, unable to connect or internalize its concepts.
We must remember that the question of how to make Judaism relevant occupied not only R. Hirsch but all committed Jews. Some watered Judaism done, reformed it, or reconstituted it; others attempted to reinforce and isolate it to a small, insulated group that could continue to employ old terms of discourse within their ghettos.R. Hirsch was unique in that his solution worked for insiders and outsiders and did not compromise Jewish Orthodoxy; however, it iwas never widely accepted and is now an outdated solution. It has nothing to say to the disinterested non-speaker of the old languages, to the average Jew on the street. It also has little to say to a contemporary theist This is why it has disintegrated, for Lakewood is offering a better partial solution to the quandary of how to stay religious in the world today than does TIDE.
In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (SSR) Thomas Kuhn argued that knowledge does not progress via a linear accumulation of new knowledge, but undergoes periodic revolutions, also called "paradigm shifts" in which the nature of inquiry within a particular field is abruptly transformed.
"...the current Postmodern belief is that the discovery of Reality is impossible. This extreme skepticism, assumes that;
a) All truth is limited, approximate, and is constantly evolving
b) No theory can ever be proved true (we can only show that a theory is false)
c) No theory can ever explain all things
d) Thus absolute and certain truth that explains all things is unobtainable. "
Of course, the group we are discussing do not read Kuhn. However, they drink him in from the surrounding culture. These concepts supply the conceptual categories in which they see and organize their world. In some ways, the insidious nature of how these concepts penetrate, make them more difficult to overcome.
We must understand that fulminating against the intellectual revolution of the past 40 years is unproductive. Neither will building ghettos (a very important tactical step) be anything more than a delaying action. We need a genius of R. Hirsch's talent and stature to invent a new language that will subsume the new paradigms and rescue the ancient truths by successfully restating them in a new language.
"The times , they are a-changing", and changing faster than ever. We must be prepared to repeat this feat every few decades.
When I look at Judaism, Torah and our tradition, I find only one discipline that is capable to providing the language that can include and ennoble image, feeling, relationality and other aspects of the post-modernist reality. This new language must be expressible in the form of video/film, feeling, song, and personal experience for this is the language of postmodern. The salvation will not come from a book and not from a rational discourse. I believe that only Kabbola can provide the tools to accomplish this.
Some responders debated whether in this effort, Kabbola can remain "true". Setting aside the question of what defines true Kabbola (some scholars claim that the Luzzatto controversy was precisely about whether any farther development beyond the Kabbola of the Ari is possible or allowable), we must remember that R. Hirsch was only one of spectrum of thinkers who offered similar solutions, but his was true and theirs was not. Some of the most ridiculous manifestations of the "new Kabbola" are precisely dimly cognized attempts at formulating a post-modernist religious mode of expression. Our criteria should be fidelity to the tradition, "ability to restore the crown to its state", and whether the community of believers finally accepts it as legitimate.It must be universalistic since the modern world will not tolerate or accord value to any particularistic solution.
I see the direction in which we must walk but since the Lubavitcher Rebbe's passing I do not see anyone who is actually wlaking in it. Not all who may see the vision are capable of implementing it. The Rebbe, I believe, had this similar vision of Universal Redemption of the modern world though a mystical revelation. He began to walk in that direction but did not complete or even fully initiate that task. The person who can do this will not only be a great thinker and Talmid Chochom, but a first-class politician, charismatic leader and an inspirational Master. We pray that such a man speedily arise and perhaps he will be the Moshiach ben Yosef.
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