Monday, November 23, 2009

RCA draws a line in the sand - but why here

Well, the RCA has decided it stands for something - it requires members not to be meschists. I wasn't aware of a flood of chabadnik rabbis overwhelming the RCA. The new RCA loyalty oath includes the following:


"In light of disturbing developments which have recently arisen in the Jewish community... declares that there is not and never has been a place in Judaism for the belief that Mashiach ben David will begin his Messianic mission only to experience death, burial and resurrection before completing it."


I'd rather see the RCA require the following:

In light of disturbing developments which have recently arisen in the Jewish community... declares that there is not a place in Judaism for the belief that belief in a world older than 6000 years is kefira


In light of disturbing developments which have recently arisen in the Jewish community... declares that there is not and never has been a place in Judaism for the belief that only glatt meat is kosher for Ashkenazim


In light of disturbing developments which have recently arisen in the Jewish community... declares that there is not and never has been a place in Judaism for the belief that long standing conversions can be retroactively nullified


What vertebrae would you add to the RCA's backbone? Reply in the comments

4 comments:

Danny Geretz said...

Isn't this old news, inasmuch as the resolution was adopted in 1996? Why is this news all of a sudden now?

Larry Lennhoff said...

The RCA adopted the resolution in 1996. Now it is a loyalty oath - members of the RCA have to individually sign off that they accept this. I hope they don't try this trick with the 13 ikkarim ...

Shira Salamone said...

In light of disturbing developments which have recently arisen in the Jewish community... declares that there is not and never has been a place in Judaism for the belief that it is permissible to cause injury to persons and/or property to prevent or protest violations of the laws of Sabbath observance (hilchot Shabbat).

In light of disturbing developments which have recently arisen in the Jewish community... declares that there is not and never has been a place in Judaism for the belief that it is permissible to assault and/or insult women whose garments do not meet one's own standards of modesty.

In light of disturbing developments which have recently arisen in the Jewish community... declares that there is not and never has been a place in Judaism for the belief that it is permissible to assault and/or insult women who refuse to sit in the back of the bus.

In light of disturbing developments which have recently arisen in the Jewish community... declares that there is not and never has been a place in Judaism for the belief that it is permissible to insist that a woman whose previous husband was declared dead in battle by a previous rabbi prior to her remarriage is an adulteress and her child/ren from her subsequent marriage mamzer(im).

Felix (apparently your HP neighbor) said...

Larry,
You should update this post, with more recent "in light of disturbing developments"...