Top Document: soc.culture.jewish FAQ: Reform Judaism (10/12) Previous Document: Question 18.4.19: Fallacy: Reform rejects most of Maimonides 13 Principles of Faith Next Document: Question 18.5.2: Traditional Judaism Differences: What other changes to liturgy reflect Reform ideals? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge m'chayey meytim" [who gives life to the dead] ? Answer: There are individual Reform Jews who believe in resurrection "m'chayey meytim". However, the Reform movement does not have any creed which would require such a belief. By changing m'chayey meytim to the more generic m'chayey ha-kol, the prayer becomes equivocal. This allows the believer in resurrection to understand the prayer as resurrection while allowing those with the more conventional Reform belief to relate to the prayer with intellectual integrity. Note that, in the United Kingdom, the Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues has produced a new prayerbook, Siddur Lev Chadash. This prayerbook has reverted to Mechayeh hamaytim. Rabbi Andrew Goldstein, who was on the editorial committee, tried to explain it as a new understanding of the Amidah prayer as covering all life, including death, and the reintroduction as a way of reverting to a tradition, having spent many years disassociating it from its traditional feelings of a prayer for the dead. User Contributions:Top Document: soc.culture.jewish FAQ: Reform Judaism (10/12) Previous Document: Question 18.4.19: Fallacy: Reform rejects most of Maimonides 13 Principles of Faith Next Document: Question 18.5.2: Traditional Judaism Differences: What other changes to liturgy reflect Reform ideals? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: SCJ FAQ Maintainer <maintainer@scjfaq.org>
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