The Conflict between Religious and secular in Modern Jewish thought

Abstract

As is the case with other religions and beliefs originated within the confines of the Jewish currents of thought all was the result of cross-fertilization of intellectual and philosophical among the beliefs of Jewish religious ideas and philosophies derived from the ocean, who lived in which the Jews at the same time, who has gained the Jews set of ideas and proposals that were in some cases inconsistent with the religious heritage of the Jewish have left are also a number of fingerprints in the course of the world thought both on his side, religious or secular, and has remained the issue of conflict between the traditional and the modern one of the issues that had occupied the Jewish thought of modern and contemporary, and bare material conflict, large discrepancies between the representatives of these currents and trends on the most important issues of concern to human Jewish, including the identity and how to build a model politically embodies Jewish values ​​and to find a degree of harmonization between the acquisition of data of science and modern philosophy and contribute to and adhere to the most important contained in the religious heritage of the Jewish sayings, and we can conclude that there are three streams of basic resulted from a convergence of religious heritage of Jewish science and modern philosophy holds current first in what was produced by the Western mind from the ideas and proposals and called for the rejection of religious traditions Judaism, which are contrary to reason and to keep Judaism as a social unit among the Jews without the doctrine of great influence in shaping and determining the course of life of the Jewish contemporary The second trend is the movement's traditional refusal to quote or influenced by any current rational attempts to undermine the foundations of religious belief and maxims promise of religious belief the anchor first for the Jews to build their national identity and distanced Judaism trying to vulnerable in the current scientific or mental lead to questioning the Jews as reported by their holy books, On the other hand has emerged stream sought to find a basis of compromise between what is sought the Jews to hold on to its religious heritage, with an attempt to keep aspects of the mythical and metaphysical, for and between data from the modern era, especially those relating to respect for science and scientific explanation and urged Jews to contribute to the serious and the actual in modern civilization which is the human civilization, and contributed to several of them contribute to the peoples, civilizations, cultures, and was not the product of a single culture or one religion.