How did the Enlightenment affect Jewish thought?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary, but students should reflect an understanding of Baal Shem Tov, a charismatic faith healer who founded the Hasidic sect, which was deeply physical and in some sense connected to Methodism in Christianity. It revived the concept of the tzadik (the righteous one), an extraordinary figure with heavenly powers who could guide Hasidic Jews as they entered into the mystery of prayer and union with the Divine. Another movement opposed to it, ked by Elijah of Vilnius, defended Rabbinic Judiasm. A third group emerged over the eighteenth century, known as "the enlightened ones (maskilim)." Like a number of their non-Jewish contemporaries, they were caught up in the debates over revealed versus natural religion and atheism. One of the best known of the enlightened ones was the German Jew Moses Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn argued for a Judaism stripped of miracles and other supernatural phenomena. Its basic truths could be proved by reason.
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