tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post3349398141455230835..comments2023-10-06T11:13:20.836-04:00Comments on Izgad: Can "Walmart" Destroy the Haredi World?Izgadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-74853724438536425962007-12-07T15:06:00.000-05:002007-12-07T15:06:00.000-05:00I still want to read Mark Lilla's Book on the the ...I still want to read Mark Lilla's Book on the the subject...he was amazing when I took him as a professor, though a tough professor. (For all those Columbia students out there....though he might have been doing the Uchicago thing at the time by being a tough grader....that and I have a very hard time stating my opinion.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-31000213188031774862007-12-07T14:59:00.000-05:002007-12-07T14:59:00.000-05:00100% the modern Haredi world is as much a child of...100% the modern Haredi world is as much a child of modernity as the Enlightenment it claims to fight against. <BR/>The great irony of fundamentalist movements is that the very act of trying to go back to a past makes you different than those who lived in the past. <BR/>Read Karen Armstrong's book on fundamentalism "The Battle for God."Izgadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-76212688850592573362007-12-07T13:02:00.000-05:002007-12-07T13:02:00.000-05:00BZ...I could always argue that the Haskalah create...BZ...I could always argue that the Haskalah created Hareidism.<BR/><BR/>In some ways we are still stuck in a reactionary period and are waiting to slowly come out of it (go independent minyan scene?)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com