HUMA 1860 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Zecharias Frankel, Bar And Bat Mitzvah, Reform Judaism
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[ ] for behold whither a religion allied to progress leads! If there is a conflict with what is in the bible and modern society we should listen to the. Tanakh: think about the consequences if you update judaism, cant update the religion to make it compatible with anything because it"s laughing on the ancestors faces. Conservative judaism: founded by zacharias frankel (1801-75, middle ground between reform and orthodox judaism. Conservatives interpret the text more literally than reform jews do, but more liberally than the orthodox (119): the conservative branch of judaism emerged in the mid-nineteenth century was founded by zacharias frankel (1801 75) . It was an attempt to find middle ground between rigid orthodoxy and the liberalism of reform judaism: emerged under the name of positive-historical judaism. [i]n 1922 kaplan conducted the world"s first bat mitzvah for his daughter judith: this ceremonial equivalent to the bar mitzvah for boys is now practiced regularly not only by.