Rabbi Yehoshua Shapira, a leading national-religious rabbi, has declared war on what he says is a neo-Reform stream within the religious Zionist camp. “This justifies tearing the clothes [in mourning – ed.] and tearing apart the public,” he told an audience of religious youth from the Ezra movement.
“To the best of my understanding, there is growing within us a new Reform movement – this is my opinion – and it has many of the characteristics of the first Reform,” he said.
“The Neo-Reform movement touches upon two things,” Shapira said, “romance and the limits of Halacha, and these are two things that we must not touch at all.” Neo-Reformism “destabilizes the sanctity of the Jewish home and the sanctity of modesty and purity (tahara) in the Nation of Israel.”
“To the best of my understanding, there is growing within us a new Reform movement – this is my opinion – and it has many of the characteristics of the first Reform,” he said.
“The Neo-Reform movement touches upon two things,” Shapira said, “romance and the limits of Halacha, and these are two things that we must not touch at all.” Neo-Reformism “destabilizes the sanctity of the Jewish home and the sanctity of modesty and purity (tahara) in the Nation of Israel.”
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