Summary
Rubinstein makes a defense on his life in dual religious belonging to Reformed Judaism and Christianity, specifically the Quakers. On the one hand, he understands Jewishness as that inalienable part of his identity that Judaism serves to express, channeling an ethnic identity that does not so much characterize a self as define it. On the other hand, his discovery of the silence of the Quakers is an appropriate expression of the teachings within apophatic Judaism, on language's poverty before the transcendence of God.
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Among Friends
Praised be the Lord our God, Ruler of the Universe who...gives light to the earth and all who dwell there.
-Gates of Prayer: The New Union PrayerbookThe principle of the Inward Light...illumines for us every corner of religion, philosophy, ethics, morals, daily living, social relationships, and international relations.-Faith and Practice: The Book of Discipline of the New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of FriendsOn the shelves of the Ecumenical Library of the Interchurch Center, where I am librarian, sits a book called Many Mansions? Multiple Religious Belonging and Christian Identity (Orbis, 2002). It is a welcome presence in that little library, which serves the sixty nonprofit organizations that occupy the "God Box," an epithet the Interchurch Center holds on account of its resolutely square architecture and the predominance of religious tenants since it opened in 1960. Founded on a vision of Protestant ecumenism, with the intention of providing homes for national offices of mainline Protestan...See the full content of this document
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