episode # 114--the problem with judaism and how to fix it
Keep the Faith with Shammai Engelmayer
English - January 13, 2023 01:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBJudaism Religion & Spirituality coronavirus covid-19 god natural disasters Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Does this sound familiar? “The biggest mistake in Judaism that we have today is that it's either black or white. You're either doing everything exactly perfect or you're doing nothing. And that is absolutely not the way the system works and that's not the way it ever was; if you go back in history, it was not this way, if you go back a thousand years and more. In Judaism, everyone has their observance level and everyone's goal in life should be to do better. And it's more important not to steal than to put on tefillin.”
Yes, this is something I say—often—but on this week’s episode, those words were spoken by an Orthodox rabbi, Aaron Abadi, the son of the sainted Rabbi Yitzchak Abadi, one of our leading halachic authorities who has spent most of his nearly 90 years trying to give Judaism back to the people by sensible rulings rather than onerous stringencies. Aaron Abadi is the driving force behind the website based on HaRav Yitzchak Abadi’s teachings: kashrut.org. You should listen to the podcast, and then you should check out the kashrut.org website. I believe you will find both to be quite enlightening.