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Avi, Made up with you??? I didn't know I was ever fighting with you! Oh well, thanks for letting me know...I thought I was fighting with BB! --Linda

No he isn't, and that was precisely my point! It's pretty obvious who he considers an equal and who he doesn't. He talks to Avi and Dauer as if they were grown-ups, but he talks to me like I'm a little kid who doesn't know any better, or maybe worse than that...a woman??? I didn't actually...

BB, One question: How do you define "idolatry"? Do you equate idolatry with goddess worship? This isn't a real answer to your post, and it isn't a further commentary on The Hebrew Goddess either. I find I can't do either of those things because I'm PO'd at you. A few weeks ago, I was lurking...

Dauer, Be careful what you wish for! :) You're very likely to hear my thoughts BEFORE I finish it, because I'm only in the first chapter (about Asherah) and I have some very strong opinions about it already. My first impression is that I've been HAD, and we've all been had by traditional...

Chris, I can't come up with my own answer to that one, except for the one Carl Jung came up with: "God wanted to become man...and still wants to." --Linda -

That's a truly classy way to handle that situation! I'll have to remember that the next time I run into a Christian fundie. Usually I tell them I'm Jewish, and then they tell me they are "Hebrew Christians." With the JWs it's even worse...for obvious reasons. --Linda

Dauer, The kingship language is an issue for me. I've really been gritting my teeth over the Avinu Malkeinu in recent years. I guess Imenu Malkateinu is something of an improvement, but I've never seen or heard that until I read your post just now. It goes without saying that at the...

It sounds like you have had an interesting spiritual journey. If Gnosticism was a "bad fit because of its heavily Christian emphasis", what motivated your "heavy involvement" ? Avi, It wasn't Gnosticism that was a bad fit for me. I have totally internalized the Gnostic mythos and it's very...

To answer the original question: Yes, there's another Reform Jew here. My religious education was at an American Reform temple. There wasn't nearly enough of it, but it made a deep impression on me and it stuck, even through long periods of alienation from Judaism. Reform Judaism is still...

Everyone, I wish I'd known this topic was here about a month ago. I recently got into yet another flame war on another Religion & Spirituality forum with a couple of my old sparring partners. One of them is a Christian Zionist, although he wasn't my major opponent in THIS particular brawl...

Quote: If it were not for us they wouldn't have the range of options/choices within Judaism that they have now. which, i believe, is what your parents' generation said to you when they were assimilating. BB, Yup, that's exactly what they said to us, and furthermore...they were right! My...

Dauer, I never heard the term Tzadik ha-Dor before I read your post, but if Reb Zalman isn't the tzadik for this generation, the term has no meaning at all. If not Reb Zalman, who else could it be? Is there another candidate who even comes close in terms of both the depth and range of his...

Avi, THANK YOU!!! Rebelliousness is very much a trademark quality of my aging-hippie generation, and I'm glad to know you consider it refreshing. That almost makes me feel young again. In recent years I've started feeling a little bit motheaten, like maybe the "aging" part of that equation...

Avi, I don't know if you meant it or not, but you did speak condescendingly to me. Check out my last post to Bandit, because most of it was really addressed to you. When women enter the rabbinate (whether welcomed, grudgingly accepted or opposed tooth and nail by the more hidebound...

Bandit, By "that particular forum/religion" I truly hope you don't mean the Judaism forum and the Jewish religion, which after all is my religion too. It is a tribal religion that evolved into a universalist religion while still retaining its tribal roots. Believe it or not, those tribal...

Avi, YES, I am aware of that! I just spent a very long time (too long) reading the "Integral Halakhah" thread on the Judaism board. While I'm definitely impressed with the knowledge and sophistication of all the main participants in that discussion, and while I freely admit that I couldn't...

Avi, ABSOLUTELY!!! You shouldn't even need to ask that. I'll have to answer the rest of your questions tomorrow, because I've been on the computer too long already. Shalom, Linda

Avi, "Jewitch" is a contraction of "Jewish Witch." It refers to a Pagan of Jewish heritage. It's sometimes also written "Jewiccan," but my daughter loathes the words "Wiccan" and "Jewiccan" and won't allow anyone to call her that. Following her teacher Starhawk, she prefers the more...

Dauer, Thanks for the link, and I'll definitely take a look at it. To answer your question, though...no, at the moment my interest in tumah doesn't have a whole lot to do with taharat hamishpachach. I still have MAJOR issues with the traditional patriarchal interpretation of taharat...

Dauer, Here's the post I was referring to in my note to Chris. I know I've read the basic idea before, although I'm not sure where I read it. It could have been in The Jew in the Lotus but then again it could have been in some other book. I didn't know the idea originated with Reb Shlomo...