Episode 314: Leonard Cohen, and Other Rabbis - Harry Freedman
Judaism Unbound
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Therination and Orthodoxy
In orthodoxy, and certainly in british orthodoxy, at the time when leuis jacobs was writing, wo we took up the 19 fifties, 19 sixties, it was heresy. He always regarded himself as an orthodox rabbi. Orthodoxy had to be capable of dealing with science, of dealing with the challenges of rationalism. One of his mantries was, it's not what mimonodes said then, its what mimonode would have said to day. As a jewish teacher, as a jewish writer, he's up thereiwth the great of our age. And it's a shame that he people see him taking your thoughts whele they
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