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Download Printable Version Special thanks to author Rabbi Anthony D. Holz “When you’re working toward a vision that’s firmly grounded in your values, when you are truly passionate about what you do, you will be capable of astounding creativity with…
Continue readingDownload Printable Version Download Printable Version Without Hebrew SEDER Order of Service I. קדש: Recite the Kiddush II. כרפס: Parsley dipped in Salt Water III. יחץ-מגיד: The middle Matsah is broken; one part to be eaten at end of…
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Polydoxy is a religious ideology that affirms the ultimate right of an individual to religious self-authority or autonomy. A religious community that adheres to a polydoxy affirms the ultimate right to religious autonomy of each of its members. Possessed of an…
Continue readingDownload Printable Version Definitions Polydoxy is a religious or philosophy-of-life ideology whose essential principle is that every person possesses an inherent right to ultimate self-authority over her or his psyche and body. This principle will be referred to as the…
Continue readingDownload Printable Version The Failure of Seventh-Day Shabbat In the 1960s, this writer introduced a new concept of Shabbat: Shabbat as a state of being.(1) This is an appropriate time to focus anew on this concept, which will be referred to…
Continue readingI am convinced the very survival of a modern Jewish community is dependent upon all liberal Jews arriving at the understanding the Polydoxy is the fundamental principle that underlies their various Judaisms.
Continue readingDownload Printable Version The term “polydoxy,” refers to a concept of religion and religious community. The most instructive way to introduce polydoxy, or polydox religion, is to begin with its familiar opposite, orthodox religion. In the orthodox religion, a closed…
Continue readingIn the beginning is the ontology of mind. To understand the present crisis of existence of the Jewish collectivity, which I have elsewhere termed the “silent holocaust,”and its relation to the Enlightenment with its consequent Emancipation, we must being with…
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Download Printable Version The name “Jew” is in crisis. A word of intense power, it is often a source of confusion and conflict for a modern liberal religionist who bears the name. Accordingly, there are clear indications that if the…
Continue readingAs we gather in this (small and) joyous assembly, we recognize with grateful hearts the divinity of this moment.
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