Individual and Communal Quests for Holiness: Kollelim, Modern Orthodoxy, and Intellectual Elitism
September 2, 2009 by Aryeh Klapper
Filed under Jewish Culture, Philosophy
By Aryeh Klapper Aspiring Saints? Judaism has a natural antipathy to exceptional religious ambition. Law by its nature, Maimonides explains in the Guide (3:34), aims for the good of the majority rather than of the exceptional, and thus the centrality of Halakhah in Judaism is a major challenge to many of the religiously gifted. Halakhah [...]