The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.
It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Our role as judges is to interpret the law.
Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.
Beyond being Jewish, I've always found myself to be very much in tune with spirituality.
I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don't cast me for my looks - I have a very ironic, existential, crazy Jew in me.
Judaism is my life. Everything I do is through the lens of Torah.
Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.
All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'