10-21-2007, 05:33 PM
http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/mod...story.html
The article expresses the issue...the need for "something"...tradition etc. that has real meaning at the heart of a faith. The UU tradition serves too often as a way stop...a transition church...until something spiritually satisfying comes along.
Thursday July 13, 2006
Being a Unitarian led me back to my roots in Judaism
by janet silver ghent
"Some months later, when my first marriage ended, I returned to a Judaism that was open to progressive influences — and had opened up to me. There were guitars, meditation groups, potlucks, women on the bimah and nontraditional families."
"But there was something deeper that held it all together: tradition."
"As Zohar scholar Daniel Matt pointed out during a recent weekend at Congregation Beth Am, our encounters with the holy, our mystical experiences, do not give us our moral values. Those values need to come from someplace else. That’s where Torah comes in — that’s why we have a framework."
"Interestingly, in her sermon the minister at the Unitarian church stressed the importance of remembering and honoring one’s roots, even as one ventures in new directions. While it was the spirit of inquiry and openness that led me to Unitarianism, it was the music, ritual and history of Judaism that brought me back to my roots. It was Shabbat, the candles, the challah, the experience of prayer."
A challenge to Unitarianism.....
The article expresses the issue...the need for "something"...tradition etc. that has real meaning at the heart of a faith. The UU tradition serves too often as a way stop...a transition church...until something spiritually satisfying comes along.
Thursday July 13, 2006
Being a Unitarian led me back to my roots in Judaism
by janet silver ghent
"Some months later, when my first marriage ended, I returned to a Judaism that was open to progressive influences — and had opened up to me. There were guitars, meditation groups, potlucks, women on the bimah and nontraditional families."
"But there was something deeper that held it all together: tradition."
"As Zohar scholar Daniel Matt pointed out during a recent weekend at Congregation Beth Am, our encounters with the holy, our mystical experiences, do not give us our moral values. Those values need to come from someplace else. That’s where Torah comes in — that’s why we have a framework."
"Interestingly, in her sermon the minister at the Unitarian church stressed the importance of remembering and honoring one’s roots, even as one ventures in new directions. While it was the spirit of inquiry and openness that led me to Unitarianism, it was the music, ritual and history of Judaism that brought me back to my roots. It was Shabbat, the candles, the challah, the experience of prayer."
A challenge to Unitarianism.....