Can we discuss Judaism without the politics?

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Thomas Lynley could never exist in real life. An English lord with a fortune as well as a title, who chooses to work as a Scotland Yard DI. At least he lives in Belgravia. LOL I would have chosen St. John’s Wood!

I guess he just likes to keep busy.
 
ConstantLearner said:
Living in his house and traveling with him for years, I know where all the bodies are buried, but that is information I will take to the grave.
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I’d have expected that ‘Messrs Sue, Grabbit and Runne’, Attorneys would have that all tied up.

An old age of being interviewed by TV documentary makers may well await you, though.
 
Kaninchen said:
Big market for ‘cosies’, though, especially on TV.
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Lynley has made his creator very wealthy, but she works hard, and the books are well-written and quite complex. A lot of depth. BBC did make a series, but it didn’t go over too well. Characters were not as described in the books, and plots were too simplified.
 
Kaninchen said:
An old age of being interviewed by TV documentary makers may well await you, though.
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Tha tabloids pursue me from time-to-time, but I know when to just smile and move on. I’d never do that to him. He’s a total sweetheart who’s been so kind to me. I wouldn’t do it to a nasty person, so no possible way to someone I love.
 
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Are you pursuing your opera career as well?
 
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meltzerboy2 said:
Are you pursuing your opera career as well?
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I have downgraded to a recitalist now. I was hit by a truck some time back when hiking, and that set me back on everything. My advanced Hebrew course is online, I can’t travel back and forth to Europe ro sing opera, I had to finish up my MA online. I’m lucky I can walk at all now, but I still need surgery on both feet (pins put in), eye and ear surgery, and I’m just finishing up a whole mouth restoration that took a year. I must say, I have gorgeous implants, but they are a pain in the behind to get (the waiting to integrate with the bone). John, the singer I’m working for, has been my neighbor all my life.

So, the short answer is no, but I wish I were.
 
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What an ordeal! I’m so sorry. As you say, though, you’re lucky you can walk, and lucky to be alive, as well as having a job working for a famous singer. I wish you well on the surgery.
 
But I thought Cyrus released the Jews shortly after he conquered Babylon. Did some Jews remain there for an additional 300 years?
 
Many Jews remained in Babylon throughout the Second Temple period - this is mentioned in Ezra-Nehemiah and is known from history. Sometime in the 3rd century the center of Jewish scholarship shifted from the land of Israel to Babylonia and remained there until the 10th-11th c.
 
I see. I was thrown off by a comment calling Babylon Persia. The Jews remained in Babylon and not Persia as another poster stated. I guess this explains the large numbers of Jewish Iraqis who sadly were forced out of Iraq in 1948.
 
meltzerboy2 said:
What an ordeal! I’m so sorry. As you say, though, you’re lucky you can walk, and lucky to be alive, as well as having a job working for a famous singer. I wish you well on the surgery.
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Thank you @meltzerboy2. I appreciate the good wishes. I’m actually looking forward to the surgeries since the sooner I have them, the sooner I can get back to living life as usual.
 
There were Jews in Babylonia, Persia and Medea. Even though Babylonia became the center of Jewish settlement, Jews were scattered throughout and remained so. As you can see, Persia was not far off and there was plenty of travel back and forth. There is a record in Talmud tractate Sanhedrin of a letter that Gamaliel the Edler (first century common era) wrote to diaspora communities informing them of a leap year and it began: “To our brothers, the people of the Diaspora in Babylonia, and to our brothers who are in Medea, and to the rest of the entire Jewish Diaspora, may your peace increase forever.”
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