{"id":1343,"date":"2018-02-11T16:35:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T16:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2018-02-12T20:35:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T20:35:26","slug":"mesorah-tradition-jofa-blogcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2018\/02\/mesorah-tradition-jofa-blogcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesorah (Tradition) – JOFA Blogcast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rabbi Gradofsky participate in a blogcast about Mesorah (tradition) organized by JOFA.\u00a0 The full blogcast can be read here<\/a>.\u00a0 A JOFA blog post discussing the blogcast titled “Between Text and Culture: A Definition Of Mesorah” by Steve Gotlib can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As part of the blogcast, Rabbi Gradofsky wrote:<\/p>\n

Ultimately, our tradition is about seeking to understand and fulfill God\u2019s will, and if simply mimicking ancient practices keeps us from constantly growing in this regard, we are doing anything but following our tradition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Further discussion of the blogcast can be found on the UTJ Facebook discussion group here<\/a>\u00a0and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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Ultimately, our tradition is about seeking to understand and fulfill God\u2019s will, and if simply mimicking ancient practices keeps us from constantly growing in this regard, we are doing anything but following our tradition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,78,83],"tags":[],"coauthors":[89],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-halakhah","category-modern-judaism","category-philosophy"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t