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Jewish Salvational Visions, Utopias, and Attitudes Towards the Halacha

David Schoen Institute of Creative Jewish Education, Jerusalem, Israel

The institutionalized Jewish salvational vision of the Halacha and alternative salvational visions are presented. Two patterns of alternatives emerge: one which does not impinge upon the broader society but only upon spiritual elites and while subordinating the Halacha, does not reject it; and one which rejects the Halacha and attempts a utopian reconstruction of the broader social order. At the root of these differences are differing resolutions of central ambiguities in the basic salvational conception of Judaism: the Covenant.

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