Mordecai Kaplan Quotes on God
Mordecai Kaplan was a Lithuanian-born American Jewish philosopher and rabbi, long associated with the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, a fourth American Jewish denomination that he conceived as a renewal of Judaism for the conditions of modern democratic and pluralist America. This page collects quotes attributed to Mordecai Kaplan on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Mordecai Kaplan:
“Judaism is the evolving religious civilization of the Jewish people.”
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Attributed to Mordecai Kaplan:
“God is the power that makes for salvation in the lives of human beings; God is real because the salvation is real.”
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Attributed to Mordecai Kaplan:
“Tradition has a vote, but it does not have a veto.”
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Attributed to Mordecai Kaplan:
“The Jewish people creates Judaism continuously; we are no museum of revealed truths.”
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Attributed to Mordecai Kaplan:
“Religion in America must be voluntary, or it ceases to be religion at all.”