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He admits that as a young man,
before he met rabbis from other denom-
inations, he held rather cliched views
about their limited knowledge. But over
the years he has gotten to know non-
Orthodox rabbis who are "serious schol-
ars and serious religious leaders deserv-
ing great respect." Encountering them,
he says, has enriched his life and "made
me a better Orthodox Jew."
For Rabbi Greenberg, Yeshiva
University is still "my community, my
family. It's still one of the most impor-
tant venues of modern Orthodox life."
However, he adds, "Sometimes fami-
lies are cruel, but it's still your family.
You try to work it out, to change it."
Over the last five years, he sees the
community as moving backward in
terms of pluralism: The dynamics of
separation are stronger than before,"
he says. He's done a lot of work in this
area, writing and lecturing, and notes
sadly, "I think in actual fact the work
has not gone well. The operation is
succeeding, but the patient is dying."
When asked about his 1985 paper,
"Will There Be One Jewish People By
The Year 2000?" Rabbi Greenberg says
he believes that we are very psycho- <
logically close to two peoples, organi-
zationally and socially perilously close,"
noting that many of the unifying insti-
tutions have died. "It remains a deep
concern for me," he says, but he's now
working hard to prove that he was
wrong, that the patient can be saved.
For many years, the establishment of
a Jewish retreat center has been on his
—/
list of priorities, and he still hopes to
devote energies toward that, with the
successful Brandeis-Bardin in California
as a model. He envisions a cross-denomi-
national institution and is convinced that
"it's an idea whose time has come. The
secret of Jewish history is that we keep
trying until we get it right," he notes.
When asked about his spiritual life,
he says that his "biggest highs" have
come not in prayer but in Torah learning
and human relationships. For Rabbi
Greenberg, living in Israel is still on his
list of possibilities. The author of The
Jewish Way, he wants to do more teach-
ing and lecturing, and after he finishes
his book he has another in mind, on the
psychology and theology of everyday life.
Living in the Image of God is well c- -\
done, and goes perhaps as far as a
book in this format can go. Freedman
asks finely tuned questions and keeps
the discussion moving and pointed.
Readers will be inspired to antici-
pate Rabbi Greenberg's own book,
when he crafts a narrative to more
precisely express his thoughts. For
now, this is a good introduction. I
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