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rjhgins (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
If you find a better home there. Fine. We all need to find a proper spiritual home and there is much that is wonderful about more traditional Judasim, as well as Reform too.
rjhgins (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Conservative Judaism has made changes, some too much for me, but when I look around at the alternatives-one Movement stuck in the 16th century and another bringing pork into their youth group programs, it is still where I have a home, albiet on the far left edge. Why is there no music in an Orthodox service on Shabbat? See psalm 150. There was in the Temple. Its ghetto thinking-its just because the Christians did it. That's nuts.
rjhgins (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The mehitza was never part of early Judaism. That is an error. The ezrat Nashim in the Temple was a mized place. We probably borrowed it from Christians and Moslems. There is no mehitza in archeological excavations of early synagogues or at Massada.
rjhgins (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Judaism has alays changed. It changed in the Torah, see my videos on change and bnot zelopad. See Deut 17:9 and Talmud rosh hashanah 25. The Pharisees opened up a hugely different kind of Judaism than the Torah. You have to be in fairyland to believe the Mishneh is exacly what was passed down from God to Moses.
rjhgins (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I read your full attack on the main message. here is my response in piecesYou are right Conservative is "losing" (market share} but it still represent the best and true Judaism. Orthodoxy is founded on basic errors, of the Mosaic authorship word for word of the torah. Some thee believe literally in the world being 5767 years old, and that there was actually an Adam and Eve. That is all nonsense and make sit impossible for a thinking person to accept.
hartfieldzody (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
unfortunately conservative judaism is merging into reform judaism
rjhgins (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
We are religious and think people should have God as the central role in their lives and practice jewish rituals and traditions. We know there are many "secular" jews, some of whom practic jewish rituals. Basically, there are just "Jews" and our educational goal is to inspre all jes to learn,, live and love Jewishly as much as possible.
rulllar (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I wonder if you could tell me what is the conservative view of secular/non religious Jews? |
