Peter Knobel
divine Providence and Justice dealing with men in miraculous narratives.
We recognize in the Mosaic legislation a system of training the Jewish people for its mission during its national life in Palestine, and today we accept as binding only its moral laws, and maintain only such ceremonies as elevate and sanctify our lives, but reject all such as are not adapted to the views and habits of modern civilization.
We hold that all such Mosaic and rabbinical laws as regulate diet, priestly purity, and dress originated in ages and under the influence of ideas entirely foreign to our present mental and spiritual state. They fail to impress the modern Jew with a spirit of priestly holiness; their observance in our days is apt rather to obstruct than to further modern spiritual elevation.
. God reveals Himself not only in the majesty, beauty and orderliness of nature, but also in the vision and moral striving of the human spirit. Revelation is a continuous process , confined to no one group and to no one age. Yet the people of Israel , through its prophets and sages, achieved unique insight in the realm of religious truth. The Torah , both written and oral, enshrines Israel 's ever-growing consciousness of God and of the moral law. It preserves the historical precedents, sanctions