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Speaking of which, the temple was razed by the Roman armies. 2,000 years yet for the physical temple to be rebuilt.

 

Life circumstances are telling themselves. We shall see what we shall see.

 

I am a male, yes. No I do not recite any articles of faith every morning for the following reasons.

1. The Rambam did not write the "Articles of faith" you are talking about. What the Rambam wrote, when translated from Judeo-Arabic to Hebrew, is called in Hebrew (י"ג עיקרי תורתינו) this translates into "13 foundations/principles of our Torah" and not "principles of faith."
   • The Rambam wrote the above in Judeo-Arabic in his commentary to the Mishnah and it is several pages long and extremely detailed.
   • You can see HERE how long they really are when translated from Judeo-Arabic into Hebrew.
2. There is one interpetation written by an anonymous source which states, "I beleive with full faith...." but the Rambam did not write that. It is an interpretation of what the Rambam wrote.
3. You are referencing the Yigdal litergy that is one interpetation of what the Rambam wrote and here is the history of it.
   • Leopold Zunz contends that it was written by Daniel ben Yehudah Dayan, who spent eight years in improving it, completing it in 1404. Some see in the last line of "Yigdal" a signature, "Yechiel b'Rav Baruch", though it is unclear who this might be. Hartwig Hirschfeld argues that the famous poet Immanuel of Rome is the author. Immanuel made several attempts at putting the 13 Principles into verse, e.g. a 72-line version entitled “Poem Based on the 13 Articles”. "Yigdal" shares rhythm, rhyme and a number of phrases with this poem.
4. The Yigdal you are referecing is not recited every morning in a number of communities such as Yemenite Jews, Syrian Jews, and various Chasidim.
5. There is no halakha (Jewish law) that states that women can't recite the Yigdal. There is also no halakha that says that anyone even needs to state it at all.

Further, the Rambam is not the only one who compiled a lost of foundations of the Torah. Rabbi Saadya Gaon, Rabbeinu Hananel, Rabbi Yoseph Albo, Rav Avraham ibn Dauth, to name a few.

Sorry for the long answer but it is the Jewish way,

 

Can't be... Luke 12:49-53.

This ^^ doesn't fit. Compare it to Isaiah 11:6.

Sorry.

 

Yep. There's nothing quite like nearly two millennia of oppression laced with Christian-inspired pogroms to give one a bitter view of history. And, still, we've done pretty well for ourselves as a people.

 

OK, I can see that you are very learned in these aspects. So now -- the Tanach has examples of those that were brought back from the dead. Why do you think these occurrences were written down? Starting with the widow's son that Elijah brought back from a dead state at 1 Kings.

 

I agree that the history of much of that called Christendom is sordid. But that also has been prophesied. But then, there are instances of Israelites back in the days of the prophets in the Tanach when they killed their own. Also, this does not mean that God cannot and will not gather his sheep to one flock with one shepherd. Sheep to the best of my knowledge are not known to kill one another.

 

Was this the same prophet that led you to believe that Pilate was Jewish?

 

I am referencing that many Orthodox men put on the tefillen each day and recite the "13 foundations," etc. of the Torah.

 

I don't recall learning that he was Jewish.

 

OK, I'm referring to the recitation many men make with tefillin. I guess I am wrong because I thought they were to recite the thirteen articles of faith per (not by?) Maimonides when binding the tefillin on themselves.

 

Actually, what you described "tefillin" and "reciting the Yigdal" are not interconnected. All Torah based Jews put tefillin either a) only during Shahhrith or b) throughout the day. That is halakha that comes from Mount Sinai.

Further, reciting Yigdal it is not a matter of many. It is a matter some do and some don't. Lastly, if you read the Yigdal in Hebrew and Adon Olam you will see that has some reasons for them that are obvious about staying away from the ideas expressed by missionaries.

You mentioned earlier they were "articles of faith" and from the Rambam. I was correcting you that the Yigdal, you referenced" was not "articles of faith" and that the Rambam did not write the Yigdal.

 

Where did you get the idea that "many men" recite he Yigdal with, or while putting on tefillin? I looked in a Ashkenazi siddur and they don't do such a thing. That doesn't exist in Sephardic siddurs and it is definately not a Yemenite tradition. Further, the Rambam does write anything about "reciting" any articles of faith. What he wrote was not something people recite, and as mentioned before they were not articles of faith.

Someone may have misinformed you.

 

It was written down because it was something that happened and it was information that had been passed down. Melakchim (Kings) was a collection of histories that were compilled together by the Hakhamim of Israel. It is not information of a binding nature like the Torah. If a Jew had never heard of the text Melakhim but they had the Torah and the Halakha they could function perfectly fine.

 

Jesus was a nice Jewish man who aspired to be the messiah but failed. He simply did not fulfill the prophecies.