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u/HeWillLaugh · 6 pointsr/Judaism

> Open orthodoxy doesn't fall under the incredibly wide tent of orthodoxy for some unknown reason.
> And yes, the reason is unknown.

See here: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Open-Orthodoxy-Not-Orthodox/dp/0692727043

Here: https://cross-currents.com/2015/11/17/rav-aharon-feldman-on-open-orthodoxy/

Just about every other article here: https://cross-currents.com/

Here: http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/open-orthodoxy-is-openly-unorthodox/2016/11/03/

Its really not hard to find the reasons. I have no idea why you say the reasons are unknown.

u/Yserbius · 3 pointsr/Judaism

Ehhhh.... (waggles hand back and forth).

Open Orthodoxy is an organized denomination with an official head board and all that. The vast majority of frum organizations do not recognize them as being frum. Their conversions are not accepted, their shechita is not accepted, and their psak halachas are ignored.

Books worth of material (literally) have been written about the subject. Pretty much the only people who consider them comparable to MO are the OO heads themselves and people who don't know any better. I mean, a recent spat of controversy arouse when an OO Rabbi defended intermarriage a position that, by it's very definition, is against Orthodox Judaism. And it's hardly the most controversial thing to come out of OO.

u/IbnEzra613 · 1 pointr/Judaism

There is a whole book about it, which I've read. You're not gonna discredit the whole book with one sentence.

Note that some of the arguments in the book are a bit of a stretch because they are written from a charedi perspective, but the book makes enough convincing valid points aside from those.

u/DonQuixoteReference · 0 pointsr/Judaism


>Open Orthodoxy is an organized denomination with an official head board and all that. The vast majority of frum organizations do not recognize them as being frum. Their conversions are not accepted, their shechita is not accepted, and their psak halachas are ignored.
>

Not quite, my friend. There is an Open Orthodox yeshiva, and that's about it. There's nothing like the RCA or the URJ. The non-acceptance you speak of generally falls under personal discrimination, as in: "Yes, this posek is very well done and it makes perfect sense. What? He learned from so-and-so? This poskim is not orthodox."


>Books worth of material (literally) have been written about the subject.

I can find plenty of material on plenty of untrue things. OO is the new bogeyman of orthodoxy. It was Rambam, it was chasidism, it's OO now. Everyone is trying to get to the front of the line and say who can disavow them the loudest. Therefore, the positions against them tend not to hold much substance.



>Pretty much the only people who consider them comparable to MO are the OO heads themselves and people who don't know any better.


You could not use a bigger fallacy in your argument. "People who disagree don't know any better."


>I mean, a recent spat of controversy arouse when an OO Rabbi defended intermarriage a position that, by it's very definition, is against Orthodox Judaism.


I know that rabbi, and he didn't defend intermarriage. He simply said we need to look at the culture around it and not shun those who have already done it. "A jew has intermarried? Ok, that's terrible, but will we still count him for a minyan?" That's what the rabbi was talking about, and he later even clarified the point in the same publication.



>And it's hardly the most controversial thing to come out of OO.


Do tell.