the confusion of Tartuffe

This is a fascinating book that is timely. The author Delphine Horvilleur, President of the Liberal Jewish Movement of France is also editor of the magazine "Tenou'a". Without doubt this is as a journalist, she senses lurking on the way of the world and knows how to make a living book. But as she is also a rabbi that does not come at the expense of deepening texts. Serving its arguments it puts the resources of a strong rabbinic scholarship, not the one that is to be seen but the one for understanding, and a critical spirit of great sagacity foiling subtly and convincingly macho paradoxes on which fundamentalists and traditionalists are based. One feels that the author takes pleasure in this deconstruction there and amusement creates ours. This book deals with serious subjects: the veil, gender theory, and others returning to deep conceptions we have of femininity and masculinity, but he does it with humor and a certain grace.
To understand about the best is perhaps to quote a few lines of Delphine Horvilleur in his introduction: "... It is urgent that religious voices from all traditions revisit the notion of modesty today in the sacred texts . Modesty may be a buckling obsessive body of the other. Rather, it is no being visible in its nakedness. No being has finished unfold. Something in him still escapes because it is not reducible to desire it arouses in us, or a sacred text to images in vehicle ... is true of men as is true of the texts. The only modest reading of religious texts is the one that says they have not yet been fully revealed, exposed by readings and past players. When interpreting freezes, she profane. "
Delphine Horvilleur recalls that in Judaism faithfulness to Tradition is to study constantly to reinterpret in each new context. But his point is well address beyond its coreligionists and should challenge for many in various denominations.