Dan Sieradski entered the mix this morning with his first offering in the "Is Social Justice the Soul of Judaism" Big Question. I can't wait to see where the commentariat takes this one. Yesterday's opening installment saw Ashprintzen and Ilan clowning the Tikkun Olam fetishists, and Dan Freeman and various anonymi denouncing Steven I. Weiss as a burner of straw men. Ilan went so far as to compare Tikkun Olam to idol worship, or Avodah Zarah. (Note regarding Avodah Zarah: Best. Talmud tractate. Ever. And the only one I own.)
Jewcy hearthrob Freeman brought his Yale Law School pilpul training to bear and compared Judaism to–you guessed it–late President Gerald Ford during his days as a football All American at Michigan. Enough with the cliches, Dan. If Rashi said it, you don't get points for saying it, too. But that didn't stop Steven I. Weiss from running with it like Christian Okoye over the Raiders offensive line, leaving both a comment here and a post at his own blog, the latter including the least likely parenthetical phrase in the history of the English language: "Was Deacon Jones, to paraphrase Genesis, merely a great football player of his generation?"
Somewhere in the cosmos, Rav Kook looks very confused.
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