That’s a painful anecdote to read, but thanks anyhow. My father was circumcised in the US Army at age 21 (non religious), and complained about it for the rest of his life.I once attended class at the university with a young man who became religious as a teenager and whose parents had never given him a Bris Milah. He elected to undergo it at age 18. He was in excruciating pain and could barely sit down for 3 days. His doctor told him that when certain anatomical events
He didn’t say that. Maybe yes, maybe no. It depends on the prayer. People must also do good deeds and study Torah to help expiate their sins. Often, they must undergo some measure of physical or other suffering (at God’s decree) as well. Righteous people fast, voluntarily accepting that suffering as atonement.You are telling me that the prayer alone is sufficient
Actually, you are not allowed to bring a sacrifice for an intentional sin. That is an invalid sacrifice and a violation of Torah law.and that the respective sacrifice that goes with the prayer is not necessary if the sin was intentional. Is that it?
If intentional sins may be atoned for with prayer, fasting and good deeds, then a fortiori, unintentional sins can also be atoned for in that manner. The institution of sacrifice was a Divine gift to ease the process of atonement for less serious sins. Now that gift has been taken away.How do you atone for unintentional sins, then?
Perhaps it was an oversight. I’ve noticed a common pattern among anti-Semites of conspicuously leaving the word “Jews” uncapitalized. It is not appreciated.Also, did God excuse jews not to do as He instruced to on Yom Kippur? If I remember well the instructions in Leviticus, you are supposed to offer holocaust, incense, sacrifices and so on for the expiation of sins, besides prayers.
The Jewish Encyclopedia is always a good place to look, here it is on sinHi, I have read that Judaism dies not believe in original sin, specifically in terms of individual responsibility for inheriting it.
Christian and Jewish beliefs about the afterlife are quite different.Would have Jesus Christ been raised in the Jewish faith being taught that if an innocent baby or child died before the age of reason, that the child would be welcomed by our Heavenly Father into Heaven?
I was raised in a non-Catholic denomination that teaches we are born with a sinful nature ie we all have a propensity to sin but that like Judaism the child is blameless until he/she reaches the awareness of their own responsibility for their own personal sin.Hi @Kaninchen, haven’t seen you in awhile!
Long story short, there is no original sin in the sense that someone is born already blameworthy due to Adam’s sin. Judaism teaches that children are blameless/innocent in the eyes of Heaven before the age of majority, which is 12 for a girl and 13 for a boy, after which they are held responsible for their actions.