Many religious systems
place quite a premium on conformity. Sometimes this conformity is taken to extremes.
The Kotzker Rebbe says; “If you copy my practices, convensions and
actions – know that you would be practicing a form of idolatry. Any replication
(without internalization) of another’s behavior is tantamount to idolatry.”[1]
Rav Kook wrote similarly; "Keep me not in cages of material or of spirit..."
Rav Kook wrote similarly; "Keep me not in cages of material or of spirit..."
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