Concept
Jewish Renewal
Overview
Jewish Renewal (Hebrew: התחדשות יהודית, romanized: Hitḥadeshut Yehudit) is a Jewish religious movement originating in the 20th century that endeavors to reinvigorate modern Judaism with Kabbalistic, Hasidic, and musical practices. Specifically, it seeks to reintroduce the "ancient Judaic traditions of mysticism and meditation, gender equality and ecstatic prayer" to synagogue services. It is distinct from the baal teshuva movement of "return" to religious observance of Orthodox Judaism.
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In short, how can the utility or the necessity of this doctrine be reconciled with the fact, that the great _legislator of the Jews_; who is supposed to have been inspired by the Divinity, should have remained silent on a subject, that is said to be of so much importance? In the third chapter of Genesis it, is said, "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast…
Paul Henri Thiry Holbach, The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1
Close in meaning to Jewish Renewal; the term itself is not named.
The Jewish people, scattered in all directions as they are, have in this way rendered services which deserve recognition to the development of culture in the countries where they settled; but unfortunately not all the massacres of Jews in the Middle Ages sufficed to procure peace and security for their Christian contemporaries. Once the apostle Paul had laid down universal love between all men as the foundation of…
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its discontents
Close in meaning to Jewish Renewal; the term itself is not named.
It kindles the spirit of no less a divine than Johannes Scotus Erigena, who endeavours to clothe it with the forms and terminology of the Christian religion. Among the Mohammedans we detect it again in the rapt mysticism of the *Sûfi.[3] In the West Giordano Bruno cannot resist the impulse to utter it aloud; but his reward is a death of shame and torture. And at the same time we find the Christian Mystics losing…
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
Close in meaning to Jewish Renewal; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- Egalitarianism
- Hasidic Judaism
- Judaism
- Kabbalah
- Environmentalism
- New Age
- Orthodox Judaism
- Pennsylvania
- Boston
- Pacifism
- Sufism
- Buddhism
- Jewish religious movements
- Dance
- Counterculture of the 1960s
- Jewish mysticism
Place in the tradition
Part of Jewish philosophy.