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Valke2
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Refoirm Jews consider every place of worship to be equal to the Temple, essentially.
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mercygate
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I guess I can understand that. But if I were Jewish, I would be modern Orthodox.
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Alexius
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Me too!
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Valke2
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The only condition associated with his birth as far as Iknow is that he will be from the line of David. There’s nothing that tells us how we will know this. My guess is that if he fullfills everything else, his lineage will be assumed.
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Lapell
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Isn’t Shem one of Noah’s sons? How then could he be Melchizedek centuries later meeting Abraham, who already was in his eighties or nineties then?
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Lapell
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Of course, you are just saying what the midrash said, but how did they come to that conclusion? A vision? Something they heard from a spirit? A dream? Or was it just to mean that Melchisedek was of the same spirit that Shem had?
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ryanoneil
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Add up the numbers given in the account of the descendants of Shem’s line (Gen 11:10-26): Abraham is born 290 years after Shem’s first-born, Arpachshad. Now, if Shem is 100 years old when Arpachshad is born, that means that he’s 390 when Abraham is born. And, if Shem lived five hundred years after Arpachshad’s birth, and Abraham lived to be 175 years old (Gen 25:7), that means that Shem outlived Abraham by 35 years.Isn’t Shem one of Noah’s sons? How then could he be Melchizedek centuries later meeting Abraham, who already was in his eighties or nineties then?
salvationhistory.com/studies/lesson/covenant_our_father_abraham#Blessing
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Valke2
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I don’t know any more about this. I doubt that there’s anything about a particular rabbi having a vision regarding trhis. I’ll see if I can get more information
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Jean_1958
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Hi,
I would like to know what is a Chabad Center?
Thank you.
Jean
I would like to know what is a Chabad Center?
Thank you.
Jean
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Nepenthe
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Whoa there. Paarsurrey is NOT a ‘heretic Muslim’. A more accurate wording would be that he belongs to a different, very liberal and pacifistic sect of Islam, like, say, the Sufis. Plenty of Muslims, just like many Christians, consider those with different tenants and practices to be ‘heretical’. Just FYI
Okay, back to the topic - let’s jew it on up, Valke2! Seems there are questions abounding!
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Nepenthe
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Whoa there. Paarsurrey is NOT a ‘heretic Muslim’. A more accurate wording would be that he belongs to a different, very liberal and pacifistic sect of Islam, like, say, the Sufis. Plenty of Muslims, just like many Christians, consider those with different tenants and practices to be ‘heretical’. Just FYI
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Snerticus
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I’m quite fascinated by Jewish history, but I’m totally clueless about it after the Temple was destroyed in about 70AD.
Are there any good reference books that are easy to understand that address Jewish society and practice after this time to the present? I love my Jewish brethren but I think it would help if I knew more about their contemporary practices and how they came to be.
That, unfortunately, I know nothing about.
Are there any good reference books that are easy to understand that address Jewish society and practice after this time to the present? I love my Jewish brethren but I think it would help if I knew more about their contemporary practices and how they came to be.
That, unfortunately, I know nothing about.
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Valke2
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Chabad Centers are like jewish education centers and places of worship set up by a particular sect of Jews. Chabbads are a type of Hassadim and their goal is to further educate all jews, regardless of whether they are secular, orthodox, reform, etc.
Their emphasis on Judaism is a little different than other sects and their central text of study(other than Torah etc) is a text called the “Tanya”, which was written by one of their leaders. The Tanya is a kabbalistic text that deals with things like different levels of souls/spirituality…
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Valke2
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Rabbi Josseph Telushkin’s “Jewish Literacy” is your best bet. You won’t be disappointed. Every Jew know has been given a copy of this book as a gift at some point. It is an easyread and covers a lot of topics in one or two page paragraphs.I’m quite fascinated by Jewish history, but I’m totally clueless about it after the Temple was destroyed in about 70AD.
Are there any good reference books that are easy to understand that address Jewish society and practice after this time to the present? I love my Jewish brethren but I think it would help if I knew more about their contemporary practices and how they came to be.
That, unfortunately, I know nothing about.
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Snerticus
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Thanks so much Valke! :hug3:
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mercygate
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Maybe when you find that, apropos of Shem’s longevity, you might find a reconciliation between this story and Gen. 6-13 – right before the story of Noah begins:
"When men began to multiply on the face of the ground . . . the LORD said, “My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for he is flesh, but **his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.” **
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ryanoneil
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My footnote says 120 years is probably the amount of time before God would destroy them with the flood, rather than the maximum span of life God would allot to individual men in the future.
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mercygate
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Given that a passage may be read in a number of ways without doing violence to the text, I find that idea to be more-or-less silly.
One might concede that the Lord could make exceptions to the rule of 120.
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ryanoneil
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I would agree that it looks more like the life span number, but that is what my footnote says.
I also agree with your second point. I’m sure the number 120 is a relative or symbolic somehow.
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Valke2
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Jews believe that 120 years is the best one can hope for and usually a sign that a person lived a righteos life.
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