* Left: Labor = Reform
* Center that moves slowly over the decades until it is indistinguishable from the left: Likud = Conservative
* Moderate right that lacks backbone and vision for the future: Mafdal (etc.) = Modern Orthodox
* Narrow-minded, self-centered, principled, selfish, and belligerent right: Haredim = Haredim
* Moderate right that slowly over the decades slides into the narrow-minded right: Hardal = Modern Orthodox
* Visionary, stalwart, independent, with confidence and boldness to tread the narrow center between fire and ice{*}, with audacity, against all ridicule: Feiglin = YCT
(*) - Reference to the midrash that compares the Torah to a narrow bridge with fire on one side and ice on the other; to follow the Torah, one must tread this narrow path between two deadly extremes.
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Mike,
I'm also a supporter of Manhigut (and also fan of Berkovits...) and a Likud member as a result, but Feiglin hasn't put anyone in the Knesset yet. That's where he has prove himself. It's too early to make declarations such as you did.
And YCT hasn't yet revolutionized Modern Orthodoxy; give them all time.
In any case, this is all a joke, not a serious historical analysis.
What's so impressive about YCT? When I read there statements, it sounds to me like the ones of the conservative movement 150-100 years ago. and my prediction is that in 100-150 years they will be where conservatives are today.
It is a general experience that when somebody starts a new idea and makes changes in Judaism then his students will be more radical and go further in this direction and so on. We see this not only in Reform and in Conservative, but also on the other side of Haredi and Hassidic.
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