Desert Snake
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Considering the different groups practicing Judaism, how vague is the word, /in a religious sense/, actually?
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If you ask me there's only one group practicing Judaism...Considering the different groups practicing Judaism, how vague is the word, /in a religious sense/, actually?
If you ask me there's only one group practising Judaism...
An example of ultra-liberal.Pretty vague by now. My thought is that it is a spectrum of beliefs from ultra-conservative to ultra-liberal but too many years old to be relevant to non-Jews.
It isn't vague, there is only Rabbinic Judaism classed by Orthodox Judaism as being Kosher; the rest aren't even Jewish according to some.Considering the different groups practicing Judaism, how vague is the word, /in a religious sense/, actually?
If you ask me there's only one group practicing Judaism...
That's interesting.I don't know if you would use the site rules as a guideline but on religiousforums.com we sometimes have to make a distinction about who is permitted to post in the Judaism dir. Technically speaking most people in history that identify as Jewish are Torah keeping. I'd say about 89% or better (guess) if we sum everyone in history, but the term is not defined in 'Scripture'. Usually people who claim to be Jewish are lumped in with Torah keepers. People who don't keep Torah usually do not identify themselves as Jewish, and that is mainly because they don't want to be confused with the Torah keeping people. That is usually the baseline for what Jewish means. Then there are those who partially do keep Torah and identify as Jewish, and they can since its not a scripturally defined term. They cannot undo all of the centuries of Torah keeping however. That is written in indelible ink, but there isn't a scripture verse that says 'This is a Jew and etc etc + geneology makes you a Jew etc'. For that reason this site religiousforums.com dedicates the Judaism DIR to 'Religious Jews'. That is the site counts people who 1. claim to be Jewish and 2. Do not object to Torah keeping and 3. Demonstrate an understanding of Torah. People who are weak in 1, 2 or 3 can be restricted from using the Judaism dir. People who are weak on these points are sometimes part of the dir, but its mainly a forum for religious Jews.
Doesn't seem vague at all to me.Considering the different groups practicing Judaism, how vague is the word, /in a religious sense/, actually?
I'm not being trying to be mean. I feature of Conservative and leftward Jewry seems to be the belief that the commandments no longer apply today for one reason or another.Oh don't worry this Thread is going to be good.