ABSTRACT
Viewing life through the prism of age-old traditions and constructs, Orthodox Jews fixate on the origins and sources of given theologies and outlooks and live the present within the framework of the past. While today's props and characters differ from those of yesteryear, for most Orthodox Jews the script by which life is lived has not changed. That having been said, and notwithstanding recent attempts by Reform Judaism to inculcate traditions and mitzvot that in the past Reform rejected, what comes to mind to the average Orthodox Jew when thinking of Reform Judaism is early-nineteenth-century German Reform Judaism and the Pittsburgh Platform of 1885. They are Reform's sources, points of reference.
