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Dec 28, 1997 - 06:52 - I have a question: The Amidah is the central liturgy of Jewish communal worship, and is common to every Jewish congregational service on any occasion. In fact, the need to say the Amidah determines the occasions of Jewish services and is the reason Jewish congregational prayer events are called "services". The haskalah is the name given to the movement away from traditional Judaism begun in the 18th Century and exemplefied by the early Reform movement in France and Germany. It extolled personal autonomy over traditional Jewish communal responsibility, and assimilation (in various degrees) as a response (or catalyst) to physical and social emancipation from the ghettos. Because the term was invented by those who espoused the movement, it literally means "The Enlightenment". As my grandfather used to say: "One man's meat is another man's poison." |
