Authenticity Makes the Whole Difference

by Rabbi Raphael Bearmant on February 12, 2009

The world is divided into two basic groups: “Authentics” and impostors. There is the “real thing”, that great truth, and then there is just everything else. Impostors bear some superficial similarities to the “real thing” but they are only skin deep. The Authentic is real and true all the way down, all across the board. The authentic and impostor occupy two distinct levels of existence, two separate realms of reality. One is true, clear and consistent. The other is fake, counterfeit and always disappointing. The authentic will always endure and outlive the impostor, even though it may suffer some temporary pitfalls. The impostor and the fake are doomed to failure while they may enjoy some timely and short attention.

An authentic artifact, like a stamp or coin, is cherished and protected. Its owner is proud of its possession. A counterfeit is simply a cheap attempt to imitate the authentic by someone who is unable to achieve the later. Those who attempt to represent the fake as authentic, like counterfeiters, are prone to extreme punishment.

Torah (bound by the Halacha) Judaism is authentic Judaism. Torah Judaism is beautiful and fulfilling. Any other “type” of “Judaism” (such as Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist, or “Modern” Orthodox or Zionism) are simply impostors just like Christianity and Islam.

We await the day when these and other forms of counterfeit Jewry will be exposed for what they really are, simply opium for the wandering Jewish conscience.

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