Are You in the Middle?

If the state is liberal, you can be liberal, and you should use the principles of liberalism. But remember that the fundamental structure is an authoritative one. The rabbis ore the legated authority, and that's the end of that. And when their inconsistencies with liberalism, so be it. It's nothing to worry about. i think traditionalist jews are not worried about it. They want to take seriously the idea of the religious tradition as in some way authoritative but also understand that we are human beings engaged in this act of interpretation. If you can't allegorize those things, you can't be an evolutionist. My mones is the great example of an evolutionist thinker