Yochanan's Gamble: Judaism's Pragmatic Approach to Life by Rabbi Marc Katz take us on a journey through the evolving landscape of Rabbinical Judaism. Once the temple was destroyed, and the sectarian violence of the Jewish Rebellion abated, certain Jews had to pick up the pieces of Judaism if it was to survive.
The Rabbinical tradition grew up without political power, territory, a cultic center – so under these circumstances, the Rabbi’s developed a flexible approach to governance that was guided by the a majority rules pragmatism that would become its hallmark until the modern period.
A Judaism stripped of territory, political power, and a cultic center, had no other option but to hit what was pitched. Rabbi Katz’s book explores the many ways that pragmatism forged a new form of Judaism.
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