One day, Rabbi Salanter was about to send a few of his students to inspect a matzah factory to make sure that the rules were being upheld. You will find there a poor widow who will be baking matzah . Make sure that she is paid a living wage. Such compassion, such human outreach, is what Judaism, and particularly Reform Judaism, is all about. Make no mistake about it.
Ritual observance is very important.
Yet let the kind of empathy, demonstrated by Rabbi Salanter, and not the outward forms, be the centerpiece of our concern.