Now What? Post-Election Special
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Now What? A Post-Election Special(January/February 2005 Volume 20, Number 1) A progressive politics of meaning does not require that one believe in a Supreme Being, much less the specific God that has been taught in orthodox versions of Christianity, Judaism, or Islam. But it does require a recognition that many people want more from their lives than an accumulation of comforts, pleasures, and material goodies. We want more than power, more than fame, more than sexual conquest - we actually want to connect our lives to something of transcendent importance the value of which will continue beyond our own individual life. In this Issue:
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There has never been a time when it is more important to affirm a radical vision of hope. And there has never been a time when radical hope seems more difficult, more counter-intuitive, more out of sync with the dominant cynical realism that shapes contemporary culture. . . Why is it that in the United States today the Right Wing has developed a politics with a spiritual dimension; a politics that regularly connects the public with the private; a politics animated by a moral vision, a strong sense of community, a powerful and trusted leadership, and an awareness of its own redemptive role—everything, in short which the Tikkun Community's "Core Vision" urges upon the Left? In particular, in the present situation—I write this in the final months of the presidential election—why is a completely failed president able to run for office with a sense of moral rectitude and self-certainty, while his opponent, the advocate of entirely reasonable policies, seems, as I write, to wallow in confusion, opportunism and a sense of inevitable doom... In the world of Jewish religious thought, Judaism is viewed as a language that is constituted by both its past and its present. Rabbis and scholars have a long history of addressing moral and ethical questions by interpreting the Hebrew Scriptures and the commentary built upon them. . . From Madonna to Matt (Daniel C. Matt, translator and scholar), Kabbalah has captured the imagination of North American seekers as never before. Increased numbers of college and adult education courses, the growth of spiritual retreat and Kabbalah centers, and the emergence of a cottage industry of books and tapes on the subject all point to a Jewish mystical renaissance. . . |
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