ing the
house of Israel?

_Judaism and the Jewish Soul_

AS soon as we begin to experience the need not merely of giving
consent to certain abstract truths or of contemplating the past, but
of helping to build the house of Israel as a means to our spiritual
well-being, Judaism enters through us upon the third stage in the
process of self-adjustment. This is the case with all those who rebel
against the pulverizing and granulating tendencies of Judaized
Protestantisms which ignore the "Kenneseth-Israel" in the effort to
mete out salvation to the individual soul. This is true of all who
refuse to allow Judaism to provincialize itself by applying for
naturalization papers wherever it finds a habitat. To this class also
belong those who see in Zionism not what its opponents make it out to
be, a sulking, sullen Chauvinism, but a method of regeneration to
which Judaism has been led by divine intuition. Dr. Schechter, who has
contributed to Judaism the concept of catholicity, has this to say of
Zionism: "While it is constantly winning souls for the present, it is
at the same time preparing us for the future, which will be a Jewish
future. Only when Judaism has found itself, when the Jewish soul has
been redeemed from the Galuth, can Judaism hope to resume its mission
in the world." How significant the apposition in which the author
places Judaism and the Jewish soul! What a pity to spoil a poetic
insight of that kind by applying to it so barbarous a term as
socio-psychological. Yet in that insight is echoed the modern
conception of religion as the self-consciousness of the group, a
conception which the very conditions of life have forced the Jew to
adopt. Whatever vitality Judaism still displays may be traced to a
general presentiment that it is a social mind and not a system of
abstract truths. We should not, however, permit such a principle to
remain merely a vague presentiment. The task that devolves upon us is
to render articulate both in theory and in practice all that is
implied in the intuition that Judaism is the soul of Israel.

EDITORS' NOTE.--_Prof. Kaplan will continue to develop
his conception of the true meaning of Judaism in
articles to appear in subsequent issues._

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote G: In _The Menorah Journal_ for October, 1915.]

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