Judaism

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Happy Rosh Hashanah everyone!  Leshana Tova

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Yom Kippur starts in just over an hour; last pre-fast meal for me soon.  I wish everyone here an easy Fast, and a thoughtful Day of Atonement.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Happy חֲנֻכָּה‎, everyone!

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Shavuot (and my own confirmation) are fast approaching!  Only 9 more days!

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Shavuot (and my own confirmation) are fast approaching!  Only 9 more days!

You staying up to read Ruth?

I might, actually.  It depends on how much work I have that night after the Confirmation Service.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Happy Rosh Hashanah everyone!  Leshana Tova   Here's to 5771!

[Kaine for Senate '18]

It's now Yom Kippur; hopefully everyone will have a thoughtful Day of Atonement and an easy fast.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Passover 2011 is less than a month away!

[Kaine for Senate '18]

And Passover 2011 has started!

[Kaine for Senate '18]

been reading parts of the Talmud, its amazing how Judaism became a religion that has to attempt to dissect and add instructions to the nth degree so that the instructions themselves become the center of focus.  no wonder Jesus had problems with all that it became.

Uh huh.  Sure.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

So, why don't Jews sacrifice lambs anymore?

We can't without the Temple.

If, hypothetically, God had said, "Dont wear the color green, "  the Talmud would have a set of 50 instructions on how you're to wear the color blue and wallow around in and glorify the 50 rules of wearing blue it had created and pat each other on the back for abiding by the 50 rules of the color blue, when all God said was,  "Dont wear the color green. " 

That is one of the most ridiculous distortions of the Talmud I have ever heard, including the anti-Semitic stuff that's been passed around.  There is nothing of that in the Talmud - it is a codification of decisions, not the rules for the sake of rules that you claim it to be.  If you're going to try and be subtly anti-Semitic, try to be more subtle.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I get the impression that if jmfcst had been born Jewish, he'd be a rabid Karaite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaite

(They're pretty obscure nowadays)

I've never seen (or heard of) them in my life.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Rosh Hashanah begins tomorrow night!

[Kaine for Senate '18]

What's the Jewish stance on the Apocrypha?

It is utterly irrelevant to us.  We don't recognize it, use it, anything.  For that matter, there really isn't such a thing as Jewish Apocrypha.  Most of the Apocrypha was written well after the Jewish Canon was set; there wasn't as much of a discussion as there was in the Christian World.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

yeah, it's our most important holiday of the year. Day of Atonement.

I hope you had an easy fast; I sure did

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Happy Passover!

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Happy New Year!

[Kaine for Senate '18]

It's almost Passover!

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Have a blessed Passover Ben.

Thanks JCL

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Reform Jews do not accept a literal definition of the Creation account found in Genesis.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

the Oral Torah, which makes it clear that duh, of course it's metaphorical.

Yeah, the Rabbinic commentary is pretty helpful to read, for things like this, and to see how Jews in the 1st and 2nd centuries interpreted the Torah.  Very illuminating.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Happy Rosh Hashanah y'all!  Le'shana Tova!