Can we discuss Judaism without the politics?

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Thank you. Very helpful. But don’t make us WORK for it - it’s the L-rd’s day for us! 🤨 I would guess that it remains within a Sabbath Day’s surfing… 😉
 
Thanks for reminding me. I should take the extra time to celebrate Yom Tov (even though its a rabbinic establishment) more than I do. Sometimes it get annoying missing so much time that its more of a distraction than a form of spiritual fulfillment. I will do my best however this year to do better.

And yes, you’re right 100%, Yom Tov is almost exactly like Shabbat! I hope I didn’t kindle the flames, there’s an old Jewish joke (based on the Talmud) that for those who sin, but keep Shabbat, G-d remembers to lower the fires on that day in hell!

Actually, note in Jewish tradition that our version of hell is more along the lines of contemplation than torment. It only lasts for 12 months max.
 
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Shabbat is a time to put down the baggage; the issues and tensions of the week. Many people say: “I don’t want to talk about business or money on Shabbat.”

III. In Yoma, 85 b , it is written: “R. Jonathan b. Joseph said, ‘The Sabbath is holy unto you,’” implying that the Sabbath is handed over to you and not you to the Sabbath. 1

Note: It is forbidden to “carry” anyone’s burden on the Shabbat

256:1 Rashi justifies Psalms xc. 12, which he interprets: “A prophet has a heart endowed with wisdom”; although Isaac Leeser translates the verse, “That we may obtain a heart endowed with wisdom,” the Hebrew word Navi meaning both “prophet” and also “we may obtain.”

Meaning: We all have the capcity (with wisdom guiding us) to raise to a new level in our faith.
 
My understanding from joining other Jewish forums is that many study the New Testament- at least, the beginnings of scripture (not the latter part) they considered to be authentic. Most consider the book of John and Mark so when quoting scripture we refer to either. I was amazed! Again, it all depends on the group that your discussing scripture with. The discussions are mostly about who the last prophet was.
That’s why I mention the prophecy of the deliver who was to be sent to Israelites - during the Exodus. In Exodus,as with the New Testament, Pharaoh degreed to have all the first born males killed. If we were to compare the passages with the New Testament with the announcement of Christ’s birth, it isn’t different. If the Magi could figure the date of the savior then surely Pharoah’s court also did…however, according to the covenant of pieces or parts no savior is mentioned, either.
 
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Haredi Jews follow the mystical teachings of Kabbalah. Personally, I’m not one of them, though I believe the Zohar and co. to be of a divine nature.

Are you interested in converting? Check your ancestry, you may already be a Jew or have a Jewish soul (a concept of reincarnation exists in Kabbalah)!

Good luck and please let me know. Shalom
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Kabbalah is 2nd nature to this group. However, in their education, it is not emphasized as much.The center of learning (schools) were located in Poland, Germany and Israel.
Out of these schools - it was Germany ( or the German Jews) that had the higher learning in Jewish mysticism and then Poland.
But after WWII, the only school that was left was in Israel and from what I know they had closed the door. Mysticism should be taught within the confides of their own group.

" The historical development of Jewish mysticism under study covers the range of phases, forms and expressions, from early Rabbinic Merkabah mysticism, through Medieval Hasidei Ashkenaz and Classical Kabbalah, early-modern Safed Kabbalah and Sabbateanism, to modern Hasidism and 20th century expressions. It is often seen as a parallel field to academic research into rationalist Jewish philosophy, though some scholars contribute in both areas. In Israel both subjects, together with Ethical literature, share the unbrella department of Jewish thought.

Maimonides even said in his book - that not everything regarding certain subjects was written but kept secret - like the saying goes, Deuteronomy 29:29 New King James Version (NKJV)

29 “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
 
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WOW! That was a terrible book. I just googled it. That’s why I heard, from a Protestant acquaintance, that every time there is a convent, there is a rectory & an orphanage. Sigh!
God forgive our sins. Send grace to open our eyes to truth. In Jesus name.
 
One would think, the year of fallow was to let nitrogen return to the fields. Now, w fertilizer and rotation of crops, a fallow year is not nesessary. In OT, where it states to discard things w mildew, it could make ppl sick and rot the item mildewed. Now, we have Clorox!!! Do not eat animals w cloven feet b/c we could get sick w trichamonus. Pigs were fed raw garbage. Now, they are fed cooked garbage. No more trichomonas. But, pork is still a NONO?!
‘Tis all good.
Today, vegans explain how we were meant to eat plant generated food & nuts. That primitive man couldn’t catch animals that well and did not eat meat. But, God gave us everything to enjoy.
OH WELL… I am fond of a good steak!
Seventh Day adventists are Biblically fed ppl.
I’m on a sea food diet. I eat all the food, I see.
Shalom…
 
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Nice for people to have a hobby.
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I would recommend that you check more information on these institutions ( Yeshiva) during WWII.
They were the largest in Europe and highly rated across the board but again, in Germany, came the best educators.

Also, on word terminology and becoming familar, see this Catholic article:

The Israel Institute of Biblical Studies​

MARK SHEA

 
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Also, I haven’t met any Jews who hate Christians. Its just not in our DNA. I’m not saying this is so with Christians either, many love the Jewish people, and for that, they are blessed.
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The founder and head of Christianity was and is Jewish, as were almost all of the original evangelists.

I am interested, have you read any of Brant Pitre’s books on the Jewish roots of Catholicism?
 
Wait so you’re saying that book by Brant Pitre’s anti-Semitic? I didn’t really look into it yet.
 
I pretty sure he was referring to the Maria Monk book.

It’s sort of an analog of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, aimed at the RCC.
 
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