On 3/28/06, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >1. do you fully accept the bible as the word of God, straight up. > >Divine intervention between God and the authors who were possessed by > >the Holy Spirit and then wrote about it? > Yes but what Jews, especially orthodox Jews hold, may be far from what you > think the Bible says. We hold by both the written law (Torah) and the oral > law (Mishnah) and feel that one without the other makes the whole point moot. > In addition, trying to take the Torah from Hebrew to other languages, > especially through the perilous path that the 'modern' english bible goes > through (hebrew->greek->latin->old english->middle english->modern english) > loses the meaning and point. > > >2. do you fully accept the idea of creation? > Yes, but again not as you may think it. On one hand there's really no care > what came before man as Torah history starts with man. Anything before is > really glossed over. On the other hand is the recognition that not only was > it not 6 days as we know them but the concept of time didn't even exist until > the 4th day so any attempt to put the world's creation into 6 actual 24 hour > days is rather pointless. There is an esoteric understanding of the creation > process but that's far from the question here. > > As is usual when asking a question to a Jew, the answer is "yes, but". :) > > Oh BTW, the laws that the Torah states for Jews are not the laws for > non-Jews. We've got 613 and you've got 7. You do 7 and you get to the same > heaven as we do. God, you've got it easy.
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