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Peter Gabel: Pioneer & Prophet
in Law & Education |
Peter Gabel was co-founder with Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun magazine, an important journal that tackles so many of today’s cultural problems with critical thinking and caring
hearts. |
Being prophetic and Jewish in its roots and commitment to justice, Tikkun also displays the courage to question openly the policies of Israel toward the Palestinians and
much more. It has not been afraid to make enemies even of its own tribe. It is also ecumenical and reaches out for wisdom from other faith (and no faith) peoples. | |
I have been honored to publish in the magazine from time to time. Peter Gabel was also a pioneer in critiquing his own profession—he was a lawyer and a teacher of law. As dean of the law school at New College, he oversaw an alternative kind of law school and as president of the University he did what I talk about doing in my
book, The Reinvention of Work: He dared to reinvent his work, his profession, and risked asking questions of where the legal profession is going and whom it is truly serving and whether it is redeemable at all. In a recent
communication with me (he was a regular reader of this DM), he pointed out to me that the so-called “originalist” philosophy of the majority of today’s supreme court was never even mentioned in his legal training. Not once. |
Peter Gabel speaks on “Originalism,” a judicial philosophy of interpreting the American Constitution according to the meaning it would have had in the late 18th century. | He writes that Social Security, Medicare and the Affordable Care Act “have all been manifestations of our sharing a greater collective wisdom about the moral bonds that unite us as social beings” and was not even in our collective awareness yet in
1789. |
And how this moral development of our collective consciousness is leading us toward the point where we must write a new Constitution or fundamentally transform the current one
to place at its center not mere individual liberty in a world of the separated, but rather a new synthesis of individual liberties with caring for each as moral partners in a sacred and socially-connect world. Peter called for a “new
emphasis on integrating spirituality, law, and social justice.” |
Peter was an intellectual and an activist in his work of lawyering and educating. And he walked his talk along with Rabbi
Michael Lerner with whom he shared a very long friendship, co-creating Tikkun magazine and much more. To me Peter incarnated the best values of his Jewish tradition, values of the pursuit of Truth
and | Peter Gabel describes the mission of The Project for Integrating Law, Politics, and Spirituality (PISLAP), as developing a new understanding of law and legal thinking. |
Justice. He was humble and true to his prophetic vocation to interfere. Peter died suddenly of a heart attack last week at the age of 73. I attended an on-line memorial service filmed from Rabbi Michael
Lerner’s home and co-led by him and his wife. To be continued |
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Queries for Contemplation How rare is it for you to hear the words “spirituality and law” in the same sentence? How important is it to “care for each other as moral partners in a sacred and socially—connected world”? |
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The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood For Our Time Thomas Aquinas said, “To live well is to work well,” and in this bold call for the revitalization of daily work, Fox shares his
vision of a world where our personal and professional lives are celebrated in harmony–a world where the self is not sacrificed for a job but is sanctified by authentic “soul work.” “Fox approaches the level of poetry in describing the reciprocity that must be present between one’s inner and outer work…[A]n important road map to social change.”
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