tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1712395447958701982.post4939969423619530050..comments2018-07-26T20:07:47.821-07:00Comments on What Your Rabbi Didn't Tell You: XenophobiaChuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00946853119814997067noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1712395447958701982.post-37533927273200911092009-02-15T09:44:00.000-08:002009-02-15T09:44:00.000-08:00It's also worth noting that although MLK was a bri...It's also worth noting that although MLK was a brilliant orator, he was far from original. That's fine, but it does mean that he possibly - in fact probably - took the thought from somewhere else and then delivered it. I don't think that's a problem - originality has it's place, but that's not what made MLK so effective.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1712395447958701982.post-1612174656769819122009-02-15T08:57:00.000-08:002009-02-15T08:57:00.000-08:00More than a simple oversight! There are MANY refer...More than a simple oversight! There are MANY references that Rabbi Weinberg makes, in his taped classes, to all kinds of non-Jewish sources- Nathan Hale, Robert Frost.<BR/><BR/>This is just poor judgementAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1712395447958701982.post-66478523041854145082009-02-15T06:46:00.000-08:002009-02-15T06:46:00.000-08:00I think the issue here is not whether there were s...I think the issue here is not whether there were sinister motives involved.<BR/><BR/>It is simply one more example of a clear pattern in Orthodox Judaism today, especially here in Israel, where the dati-leumi mainstream makes Rav Yehuda Halevi look like John Lennon.They Can't Suspend the Whole Schoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14868609840878443905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1712395447958701982.post-42065762230505687702009-02-14T11:53:00.000-08:002009-02-14T11:53:00.000-08:00Now, I don't know who dropped the attribution to M...<I>Now, I don't know who dropped the attribution to MLK, whether R. Noach himself or his disciple, but whatever the case may be, I suspect that xenophobia may have played a role in R. Noach's becoming the creator of this saying in the eyes of many.</I><BR/>And I suspect that the listener may have not picked it up, or forgotten it. Or R' Noach himself mentioned that he couldn't remember the source. Happens all the time.<BR/>Or many other possibilities.<BR/>Hardly seems fair to attribute all sorts of sinister motives to a simple oversightHamasighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13878878989698459250noreply@blogger.com