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The family of Mordecai M. Kaplan, born in Lithuania in 1881, has largely completed her education here since she migrated to America when she was a child. It was sometimes found in some congregations associated with the Orthodox Jewish religion in America, but it has grown largely within the Conservative community and has been educating in the associated institutions for many years. The fact that Kaplan depicts Judaism in a form of civilization that, unlike the traditional definition, must be reinterpreted in every age has formed the core of his thoughts. This basic prejudice has shaped many thoughts from Kaplan’s Jewish identity to God’s thought, from Halaka to his ideas about Torah. Kaplan’s association of Jewish identity with the phenomenon of civilization, as he determined his miserable attitude towards the modern State of Israel, has also caused the Lord’s Judaism to think in a form of power that provides God’s salvation and can only be understood by its effects, unlike the understanding of God. Although the Jewish heritage is very valuable because it is the memory of civilization, this heritage must be reconstructed according to the present era and made meaningful to the man of that era. In this study, we will look at Kaplan’s ideas and then see how these radical ideas have turned into a discipline called Reconstruction.

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Mordecai M. Kaplan born in Lithuania in 1881. His family immigrated to the United States when he was a child, so completed his education there largely. Although Kaplan was attend some of the congregations of the American Orthodox Jewish sect occasionally, he grew up mostly in the Conservative community and worked as an educator in the institutions affiliated with this community for many years. Unlike the traditional definition, Kaplan's description of Judaism as a civilization and his idea of this civilization must be reinterpreted in every age constituted the core of his ideas. This basic presupposition shaped Kaplan's many ideas from Jewish identity to the idea of God, from Halaka to his ideas about Torah. Kaplan's association of Jewish identity with the civilization determined his positive attitude towards the modern State of Israel, likewise, in contrast to Rabbani Judaism's understanding of transcendental God, Kaplan believe in God as a force that provided salvation. Jewish heritage is the memory of civilization, but it must be reconstructed according to the current period and made meaningful to the people of that age. In this research, we will examine these ideas of Kaplan and then we will look at how these radical ideas turned into a sect called Recontructionist Judaism. [You may find an extended abstract of this article after the bibliography.]