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  1. LAGoff

    Those sayings in the Psalms

    I have not found a mechanism in Judaism or Tanakh that can catapult or spring my spiritual development into the next level like [the concept of] the Holy Spirit in the NT did for me. (actually, I got 'It' via ACIM / A Course in Miracles) I know there are some passages in Tanakh (mostly in...
  2. LAGoff

    'Spirit' in Judaism

    I have been a 'frequent' poster here for several years. I realize that what I am saying in this post should forfeit the privilege of posting here, but perhaps you will allow this: I practiced Judaism to the best of my ability for 30 years. I found it often edifying, comforting, and -- at times...
  3. LAGoff

    The Kingdom and Temple Without and Within

    I have been inspired by the NT to make a 'Kingdom' and 'Temple' for God WITHIN. My question is: Where can I get inspiration in the OT to do this, as it seems to be concentrated on building up a Kingdom and Temple WITHOUT.
  4. LAGoff

    Looking for feedback on this interview with Russell Gmirkin

    It's a 2 hr interview, so if you want you can skip to the part that most interested me, that starts at 53:00. Russell Gmirkin is being interviewed. He is a scholar who writes books about how the Tanakh is [to a large extent] a recent 'production' (cf. biblical minimalism; aka, the Copenhagen...
  5. LAGoff

    Problem with Wisdom of Proverbs

    I never liked Proverbs, but I have a real problem with 'Wisdom' and 'Understanding' in it. The personalization /personification / hypostasization of these two (Two) is unsettling for me because my Jewish instincts want to look to God for wisdom and understanding, but Proverbs seems to be nudging...
  6. LAGoff

    What do the Sacrifices represent, teach, and mean to YOU?

    From God clothing Adam and Eve with animal skins, to Cain and Abel, to Noah, to Abraham, to Sinai, to the Temple sacrifices (that include flour and wine), what did the animal and vegetable sacrifices represent, teach, and mean to YOU-- from the individual elements of it to the overall picture...
  7. LAGoff

    What's the Theology Behind Human Sacrifice?

    I watched a mangled version of Midsommar on Youtube, and the thing came up in my mind was the beauty of the place and the people in juxtaposition to the human sacrifice that went on. This got me to thinking about the reason for human sacrifice there (in the movie) and historically. How and why...
  8. LAGoff

    A certain shiur style that I doesn't speak to me

    I don't know what other Chabad rabbis are like, but I go to this certain Chabad sometimes (rarely) and the rabbi talks and talks and talks (during his formal and informal shiurim) but I don't get anything of it because he speaks in a peculiar style to. I don't think this style is unique to this...
  9. LAGoff

    Chabad Rabbi's Shiurim. What am I listening to?

    I don't know what other Chabad rabbis' shiurim are like, but I go to this certain Chabad sometimes (rarely) and the rabbi talks and talks and talks (during his formal and informal shiurim) but I don't get anything out of them. He speaks in a peculiar style to make his points, and it doesn't...
  10. LAGoff

    Minyan and Halakha? (Mikdash Me'at halakha)

    It just dawned on me that I haven't heard of going to a synagogue to pray with a minyan as being a halakha. It certainly isn't a mitsva. All I heard is 'mikdash me'at' from Ezekiel. Is there a discussion in halakhic literature (200 BCE to 550 CE) leading to settled (or not settled) halakha about...
  11. LAGoff

    Deuteronomy 13:1-6?

    These six verses for me are spot on and lead me to reject Christianity, even verse 3 where I know you will say that it doesn't apply because Jesus never actually said "Let us go after other gods which you have not known, and let us worship them," and he was probably talking about Jehova (though...
  12. LAGoff

    Always surprised when an atheist says this:

    I've noticed a certain view of the cosmos in the atheists I've talked to. It goes something like: "The universe is so big, so who are we to think we matter?" Or: "I feel so small in this vast universe." These thoughts are alien to me (a theist). I feel just the opposite. So I wonder if this...
  13. LAGoff

    Can a religion be said to be 'true' if only 1 out of a million can do it?

    I'm talking about the NT. It seems to me that being saved is almost impossible. First, there's the 'hard' statements by Jesus that counsel plucking out eyes and cutting off things if one even looks or thinks wrong. Then there's the eye of the needle-type statements. Then there's the kind of...
  14. LAGoff

    Troubling Gematria "Coincidence": "God is love"/ "God is love"

    The only place where I see the NT in the OT is the fact that the keystone verse of the OT is "God is one" and the keystone verse in the NT is "God is love". Both one and love add up to 13 in Hebrew (one/echad = 13; love/ahava = 13). The implication is that the OT without the NT is incomplete...
  15. LAGoff

    alakhic paramaters in dealing with the 'Palestinians'

    What are the halakhic paramaters in dealing with the 'Palestinians' (I'm only referring to the majority of West Bank arabs, who are innocent) in relation to the Scriptures [which say that Hashem gave us this Land]?
  16. LAGoff

    Nothing other than God?

    It seems to me inescapable logic that there is nothing other than God, because God cannot create something that isn't God. If anyone has a way out of this 'logical inescapableness', I would like to hear it.
  17. LAGoff

    On the apportionment/status of the spirit among Abr. relig.

    Is the N.T. saying that there is no spirit in Judaism? That Judaism is just law and no spirit? Because if you agree that there is spirit in Judaism(i.e. that I can carry out the commandments with/and in the spirit), then why should I become a Christian? It seems by my reading of the N.T. that...
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