Mon, May 12, 2008

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justice pursued

Weeell... the term "social justice" is very much rooted in community civics education, that is, taking care of the place around you...

But why should the context and meaning of any given pasuk not be up for re-contextualization, according to what anyone wants to use it for? If they can do that, and get people empassioned with them-- isn't that the soul of the Torah? People wanting to say things, as if they were important, to those who have to listen?

To the degree that Rabbinic Judaism and R Yehuda Ha Nasi's trip is called Torah, wasn't the founding statement of Judaism a pasuk taken out of context to mean the oppostie of it's Pshat, because it was a truer, more important idea (at least according to him, but ratified, by like, everyone?)





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