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  1. ZVBM

    What is Purim?

    Au contraire my friends! Our kids are getting a bit old to dress up in costumes but you should see how schoolkids (religious & secular) get excited on the day they have Purim parties at school and everybody (including the teachers) goes to school in costume! And what kids don't like to make...
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    Selling non-Kosher products

    I compliment Levite on his answer. The principle involved in not being allowed to sell, say, non-kosher meat, to a Jew, even if he/she would willingly eat such meat, is known as lifnei iver and is enunciated in Leviticus 19:14: Lifnei iver literally means "before the blind." Our Sages have...
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    CHRISTIANS: Did you know that the Jewish Talmud says that Jesus is in hell boiling in excrement?

    Hmm... SHHHH!!!!! Holy Moley! Didn't you read the Archons' last decree??!!! I quote: "Devotees, servants and other assorted minions must never, ever talk about the High Plan to Outsiders..." Oh, damn...I shouldn't have said that. Um, never mind. Carry on! ZVBM [Dumdeedumdeedumdeedum]
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    CHRISTIANS: Did you know that the Jewish Talmud says that Jesus is in hell boiling in excrement?

    I'm too busy finding a tree or rock (there being no Gharqads hereabouts) that won't rat me out when I hide behind it on the Day of Judgment to comment. ZVBM
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    What Is the Best Way to Learn about your Religion

    To learn about my religion, Judaism 101: Site Map would be a good place to start.
  6. ZVBM

    From Physical Virginity to Spiritual Virginity

    I dunno. I think that given the developing church's denigration of the sex act as, at best, a concession to human weakness, and its touting of celibacy as the ideal, proclaiming Christ's virgin birth was a way for Christians to have their spiritual cake & eat it too. You have the deity...
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    People that go to hell

    We (orthodox Jews) have never believed that it's our way or the hU2GhBQsmro:fork:. Our Sages teach, "The righteous of all nations have a share in the world-to-come." ZVBM
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    Are Natural Disasters Punishment From God?

    I meant no offense to you. Asserting that the floor at the Versailles Hall caved in because there was mixed dancing is moronic. I just cannot believe that life & faith are that simple ("If God allowed/caused X to happen, it must be because of Y"). Such as we are incapable of knowing such...
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    Are Natural Disasters Punishment From God?

    Um , I'm kinda new here & don't know you, and you are kidding right? On May 24, 2001, a floor caved in at a wedding hall in Jerusalem, killing 23 people & injuring another 380. Some rabbi said that it was because there was mixed dancing & that the tragedy was divine punishment. :eek: :foot...
  10. ZVBM

    Weird dream

    Thank you dantech! Your answer was very helpful & has given me alot to think about. I am always interested in what Rabbi Nahman has to say. ZVBM ZVBM
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    Are Natural Disasters Punishment From God?

    Inglesdva is on the right track. While our Sages do not dismiss or make light of the fact that the gentlemen (not) of Sodom intended to gangrape Lot's visitors, they cite Ezekiel 16:48 and say that Sodom's sin was more along the lines of extreme miserliness and being nasty to visitors and the...
  12. ZVBM

    Were / are Jews waiting for a Literal Son of God Messiah. Is there any prophecy?

    Philomath is correct. This is a good basic introductory read. ZVBM
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    Your favorite Bible version

    If you click on the second link in my post, you can flip through Genesis 1 & 2 and see the text. Mr. Tsedaka didn't translate the whole thing single-handedly, though he & Ms. Sullivan, et. al. did translate from scratch. ZVBM
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    What should I do?

    I loved the 10 months I waited tables back in the USA (northern Virginia) before moving here in November 1986. I liked meeting all the people (jerks aside, of course) & generally had a ball. Good luck!
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    Your favorite Bible version

    Hi! I would love to get my hands on the new English translation of the Samaritan version of the Torah (with a translation of the Masoretic Text in parallel columns). See here & here. ZVBM
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    I didn't realize there is so much to learn here...

    Hi Marie75! Quoth our Sages (Ben Bag-Bag): "You are not called upon to complete the work but neither are you free to desist from it." :D Indeed! ZVBM
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    Newcomer

    Hi Patience! Welcome! ZVBM
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    Questions about Messiah signs

    Hi John! Not that I would flatter myself with the appellation "wise" but...Quoth Rabbi Simon Ben Zoma: "Who is wise? He who learns from all men." Pay attention, I may even quote the Quran, Buddha and the Tao te Ching on you! :D An almost fluent Hebrew speaker, I know what aleph & taf are...
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    Questions about Messiah signs

    Hi John! 1) Why quote Romans to orthodox Jews? It is not scripture for us; we acknowledge neither its veracity nor its authority and (no offense) really don't care what it or Paul says. 2) Quoth Homer Simpson: Your point being? ZVBM
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    School stupidity thread.

    Hi! Try these Park Elementary second-grader suspended for making pastry in shape of a gun - baltimoresun.com NRA membership given to boy suspended in pastry incident - baltimoresun.com for rank idiocy. And then there is Tiny Lego gun on school bus gets child in absurd trouble -...
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