RELI 1710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Samson Raphael Hirsch, Zecharias Frankel, Felix Mendelssohn
7 Mar 2019
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Jewish holy days and praxis: jewish practice. No essential practice (no essence of jewish practice) Anything a jew does whilst being jewish. Avoid assumption that the most conservative side of a religion is the most authentic. > different diets, dress, languages, music, literature, also prayers, liturgies, legal interpretations. > sephardic = spain, portugal, north africa, middle east. = eg. sephardic jews did not experience the holocaust as the ashkenazi camp did (ashkenazi jews mostly killed in the holocaust) = moses mendelssohn (18th c. ) - recognized that jews were converting to. Christianity - develops reform judaism (relationship with god without strict rules of living) = assimilation - easiest way of living in christian europe, be more like or to completely be christian. = the ghetto - jews nally free, but the ghetto also kept out christian in uence. = felix mendelssohn - brother of moses who converted to christianity. = as god"s word, torah is nal and binding.
