Showing posts with label Sources: Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits. Show all posts
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Thursday, September 4, 2014

Defining "Jewish Philosophy"

Hi,

My apologies for my absence these past few days; it was due to illness.

"Any interpretation, from whatever foreign source it may originate, that acknowledges Gd, Israel and the Torah as historic realities, and attempts to provide the metaphysical or theological corollary to the facts and events for which they stand, may well be incorporated in a Jewish philosophy. On the other hand, any interpretation that attempts to substitute the idea, the metaphysics, and the philosophy for the historic reality, cannot be called Jewish."

(Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits, What is Jewish Philosophy?, pp. 121-122)

Have a great day,
Mordechai