Ah yes, the things I get myself into online. I ended up having an email conversation with this very nice Mormon guy. I mentioned the Jewish idea that there are 70 ways to interpret the Torah and he wrote back asking for clarification. I am sharing my reply here. I always feel so [...]
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Things in Judaism we don’t mess with
Posted in Deena Levenstein, Holidays, Mitzvot/Mitzvas, Torah/Bible, Tradition and customs, tagged commandments, Jewish tradition, judaism, mezuza, mitzvot, sefer torah on June 3, 2009 | 10 Comments »
It’s fascinating to look at Jewish practice and see which practices a large majority of Jews generally don’t mess with. I know it’s far from written in stone (unlike the tablets?) but it’s a feeling of, if you’re going to do it, do it right. Or maybe it’s the idea of, I’m Jewish, I’m going [...]
Thou shall not murder.
Posted in Michael T. Pullen, Mitzvot/Mitzvas, Torah/Bible, tagged commandment, Exodus, G-d, Moses, murder, Passover, pessach, prophet on March 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
As I drove home, I was thinking of the passover story. I was struggling with this.
The story begins in Egypt with Moses the prince of Egypt. Moses is living a pretty good life as far as we can tell then he murders some one. He murders a person who is beating on a slave.
Moses banishes himself [...]
Peace and confusion in Bereshit
Posted in Avrum Rosensweig, Torah/Bible, tagged bereishit, cain and abel, good and evil, murder, torah on March 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
By Avrum Rosensweig
This is my uncle’s first contribution to BMid. I’m so excited to have his writing here. This piece definitely touched me. Deena
One morning, I awoke with anxiety-plus stemming from the pressures of life and its many confrontations. Rather than letting my cyclical thoughts go on like a clothes dryer spinning wildly during the [...]
