campbell, As with many things, Torah is written in the language of man. Certainly there are other episodes where it appears from a human...
campbell, It's not about my beliefs. It's about how the text is and has been understood, as a whole, and more particularly by Judaism, as this...
Zajko, I agree with you that Elohim is in origin a plural noun, most likely in its original, pre-biblical context referring to a pantheon of...
How does that put angels on par with God? The only thing that interpretation necessitates is that if God did create man in His and the angels'...
Alright, for the sake of arguement let's say that the literal wording of the passages is important, and the text can be understood as a complete...
Have you tried virtual cantor? http://www.virtualcantor.com/
Moonlight, it sounds like you had a really terrible experience. I've never heard of anyone being treated like that. Most shuls are welcoming...
Moonlight, what Wilson said. In any religion you're going to come across people you don't feel are really living according to their path, as well...
Mazal tov. :)
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Yeah, the whole concept of sin and evil are read a bit different. Taking that Original Sin example, the word use there is chayt, which is an...
Well again, there's no official Jewish translation, but you might want to look at the way Isaiah is dealt with to see some of the differences. In...
Moonllight, you might not want to bring any food because of the laws of kashrut, keeping kosher, and I don't think bringing bedding should be...
Hi Naykid. With the OT and the Tanach, some of the ordering of books is different, some of the chapter and verse numbering is different (most is...
Sefardi isn't a tribe. It's just an ethnic indicator like ashkenazi or Mizrahi. Calling it a tribe would confuse it with the twelve tribes.
Oh, I forgot to mention Jewish Humanism. They're the new kids on the block. So there's Orthodoxy which loosely divides up as the following site...
I can say something about ethics without getting into an ethical debate. Neither, actually. Although I'm making note of the fact that you use...
You mean denominations? There's Orthodoxy, which can then be divided up in a number of different ways, Conservative Judaism, Reform Judaism,...
I don't think we can talk about "levels" of Judaism. It's not as if a person climbs a ladder from being one type of Jew to another (unless we're...
Where? I didn't see you say that anywhere in your post. Even if you had said it, there's no guarantee that on some gut level you don't judge them,...
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