I love Noah Millman’s posts on Gideon’s Blog because they’re well-written. And I love them because serious thought and good heart shine through every post. But most of all I love his little sermons and midrashim. I don’t think you have to be Jewish to be appreciate them:
As I say, this approach strikes me as more productive and correct than the alternatives. But I do have a nagging doubt: can we as a people persevere guided only by a hermeneutic? Isn’t there a psychological difference, after all, between the will to believe that God authored the Torah, and the unwilled conviction that God authored the Torah? Isn’t a postmodern hermeneutic thin spiritual gruel to nourish a people? I could make many rejoinders to my own questions. But in the end, this question will be answered by history. If we, Conservative Jews, are faithful, then our perseverance itself will vindicate our own ideology about why we are faithful. If we are not, then we will not be there to do the vindicating.
I’m not Jewish and I come back looking for more time after time.
