העורך Editor

So says someone on the internet.

Judaism is today unmoored in the river of time, cut off from both past and future.

The past is no good to us, because “times are different”, and we are not to take Chazal seriously when they contradict our own wishes.

And the future of prophecy, Techeiles, the holy mount, monarchy, blowing trumpets in times of distress?

Chadash assur min hatorah (so to speak)!

We are left nowhere with nothing.

Someone just asked me yesterday why only some Brachos in Shmoneh Esrei mention the nation of Israel in the closing.

Can you help me out?

The “common man” doesn’t understand the gibberish of the “intellectuals” — because the common man relates abstractions to the concrete. It takes a second-hander, a collectivist intellectual, to run amuck amongst “floating abstractions”.

• Journals of Ayn Rand, p. 304

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