No worries! He will think its funny. He is a bizarre but interesting guy. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 8:22 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Bizarre Question For Judith the Scholar > > Actually, I should apologize for that drug song part. I don't know your > friend nor the sources he's using and should not disparage his studies no > matter how far from truth I find them. > > At 12:20 PM 12/17/01, you wrote: > >(sung to the tune of spam) > >Drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs > >drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs > >smoking drugs, shooting drugs > >snorting drugs, doing drugs drugs drugs drugs... > > > >Circumcision is an English word to define an act that in Hebrew is called > a > >bris. This literally means covenant and that's what it was all about. A > >covenant between God and Avraham (and through him, his decendants). I > think > >your friend has misread the place of HaSatan (literally the adversary) in > >all this. There are places that say he possessed the snakes body and in > >others that the snake was just his agent. In either case, the snake at > that > >time had limbs, more like a snake man than anything else. It gets into a > >lot of commentary and some esoteric stuff. To say that the snake had sex > >with Chava (Eve is a Hellenized version which really screws up) is an > >interpretation that (I believe) is very modern in origin. > > > >At 12:08 PM 12/17/01, you wrote: > > >Judith. > > >a bizarre friend of mine asked me a bizarre question about judaism and > I > > >thought I would pass it on to you. > > > > > >He would like to know the religious significance of circumcision. > > > > > >He is a guy who interprets the bible that the serpent in adam and eve > was > > >really an apelike creature created by the devil and that eve mated with > it - > > >he thinks one of her kids is of this serpent and the other of adam. He > read > > >a 15th century poem by a rabbi that had a line in it that said that we > > >circumcise to remove the "serpents seed" - he was interested if you > would > > >have any information that would help him. > > > > > >He is a most interesting guy. > > > > > >Cheers, > > > > > >Beth Fleischer > > >Certified Advanced Cold Fusion Developer > > >Internet Programmer > > >Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
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