Did you see this (ANTI-MAIMONIDEAN DEMONS, footnote 150):
Since in Judaism theology is implicit rather than explicit, the submission of halakhah to theology means surrendering the Law to whatever nonsensical “explanation” is supplied. An excellent illustration is the painful fact that with few exceptions the halakhic authorities hardly protested the abominations perpetrated by the Sabateans in the name of their mystical abominations. A similar situation prevails today with Lubavitch’s messianism; see the courageous work of David Berger, The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox IndiVerence (London, 2001).
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Date: 2008-03-31 05:12 pm (UTC)Since in Judaism theology is implicit rather than explicit, the submission of halakhah to theology means surrendering the Law to whatever nonsensical “explanation” is supplied. An excellent illustration is the painful fact that with few exceptions the halakhic authorities hardly protested the abominations perpetrated by the Sabateans in the name of their mystical abominations. A similar situation prevails today with Lubavitch’s messianism; see the courageous work of David Berger, The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox IndiVerence (London, 2001).
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Date: 2008-04-01 12:42 pm (UTC)