צום סוף פון די לעקציע זאגט דר. קריסטיִן העיס:
(דאס געבט אפשר א שטיקל קנייטש צו זיין טענה.)The notion of the Torah as inflexible is an idea that begins to grow in Orthodox circles in the nineteenth century in particular. They start to speak about some rabbinic rulings as being written in heaven; as being ontologically true - meaning they have a real existence. They were speaking in Greek terms. And I remember sitting in my study and being struck by the odd realization that the most Orthodox communities in Judaism today are the most Hellenized. That's a claim they would never accept and it would repel them. They're always "the Hellenized! What's Hanukkah all about? You know, the Maccabees who fought the Hellenized! The Hellenized are the worst!" But the most Hellenized and Hellenistic form of Judaism today is the Orthodox community