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… not after tasting the wine.

Assalamu alaikum.

Just wonderful: either no need for 'morality' or God created us with free will. Seriously? :D Please see, as but one example, E. O. Wilson's …The Biological Basis of Morality - Part IThe Biological Basis of Morality - Part IIPreferably after first reading False dilemma :rolleyes:

There is simply no there in your therefore. Sorry.

One of the important distinctions between Judaism and Christianity is precisely that Judaism is a group covenant.

Ahhh, the pot issues a stunning retort to the kettle. :)

Sorry. Yasher coach is a phrase much like L'Chaim and Mazal Tov - all relatively common.

It deserves to be challenged with at least a modicum of intelligence and maturity. To compare, e.g., the Exodus narrative with your pixies is little more than juvenile trolling.

Therefore? (Shallow Bash-the-Bible threads get more than a little tiresome after a while.)

The source?

Yasher koach! I think that is exceptional.

And I think it's an instructive point. Also interesting is that the original militancy was confiscated and thereby rendered more palatable to a larger number of people.

That's an interesting statement. :(

Again, that is not the origin of the practice. Please see my first post above.

No, I am saying something a good deal more. I am saying that the Exodus narrative provided (and provides) the ethical scaffolding of Jewish Mesorah, all this in addition to whatever imperfect information it may supply concerning Isrealite ethnogenesis. marcialou, a Rabbi once taught me that a...

Good summary, but there's much that Friedman does not touch upon.. I really encourage you to read Faust (and, perhaps, Donald Redford's Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times). I'm sorry you feel that way. In roughly ten days we remember the murder of Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner, a young...

Masi Amarone.

It's an interesting story of questionable authorship.

I an not too sure how the concepts of "religious order" applies to Judaism but my choice of Reform Synagogue was certainly a conscious and informed choice.

It's a very interesting book, and one which I read over a decade ago. Having it as next on your list is fine so long as (a) it's not also last on your list, and (b) that you're very sensitive to the role of selection bias. (I suspect, for example, that you've read none of the more mainstream...