Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Decadenza dell'ebraismo ortodosso - non solo in Israele

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1104222.html
(quote)
(...)
According to the Talmud, the very first question one can expect to be
asked at the gates of heaven pertains not to belief or ritual, but to
whether one acted honestly in all of one's business dealings (Shabbat
31a). How many members of our community could pass that admissions
test?
A message concerning ethics and social justice emerges clearly and
unambiguously in Jewish texts, one after another.
_Yet, I find that many of my fellow Orthodox Jews believe these values
apply exclusively to their interactions with other Jews._ (emphasis
added)
When they enter the public sphere - the secular space of business and
politics - they may retain the external garb of ritual Jewish
observance, but often seem to drop the ethical and moral principles.
(...)
The increasingly individualistic nature of religion in America often
embraces self-fulfillment and personal spirituality at the expense of
community involvement and collective responsibility. This phenomenon
may be especially true within American Orthodoxy. Psychologists have
found that membership and identity with a community that believes in
collective responsibility is a better predictor of moral conduct than
the capacity for sophisticated, personal moral reasoning.
_If Orthodox Judaism continues to relegate ethics to the private
sphere, and to hold off from identifying with American culture, values
and even laws (and a similar phenomenon could be said to exist with
the ultra-Orthodox in Israel) - the problem will be perpetuated._
(emphasis added)
*Rabbi Aharon Soloveichik argued that, "the Torah does not make a
distinction between Jews and non-Jews within the realm of mishpat
[law] and tzedek [justice]. A Jew should always identify with the
cause of defending the aggrieved, whosoever the aggrieved may be, just
as the concept of tzedek is to be applied uniformly to all humans
regardless of race or creed."* (emphasis added)
With this in mind, I would suggest that we need to change the fabric
of our behavior in the public sphere such that ethics becomes our
first priority.
(...)
(unquote)
Ciao.

 asked at the gates of heaven
ma se c'è il paradiso nel Talmud, cosa c'è per chi non ci va? Mi pare
di ricordare che l'inferno è solo cristiano...

 ma se c'è il paradiso nel Talmud, cosa c'è per chi non ci va?
Il ristorante cinese.

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quello era per il padre di Woody Allen, non per gli altri...

 Il ristorante cinese.
Beh, dipende dal ristorante cinese.
Da Taiwan in via Adda ci potrei anche finire, tutto sommato, se
mi fanno fare anche una capatina da Higuma lì a fianco, di tanto
in tanto.

 Da Taiwan in via Adda ci potrei anche finire
ci sono un sacco di condizioni...cosa vuol dire finire in un
ristorante cinese? Che ci resterai per l'eternità? E l'apparato
digerente rimane sempre quello o si rinnova a ogni cena? Altrimenti
non duri molto..

 ristorante cinese? Che ci resterai per l'eternità?
Esatto, e il malvagio puzzerà di fritto per sempre.

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Un tempo l'Hong Kong, di fronte al Commissariato Venezia era da leccarsi
i baffi.
Ora non so.
-- 
Tb

 Ciao.
laddove per "ethics" si intendono i comunicati dell'Istituto Tarshish.