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in fact, the davidic line of the monarchy descends directly from boaz and ruth's son, so for those people who believe the geneaology in the NT, it's also important for jesus. interesting, when you think about it, ruth being a moabite... b'shalom bananabrain

precisely. "uncover his feet"? coo-ur gosh. b'shalom bananabrain

thank you for that - usually you'll be fine unless you start being rude and accusatory! jewishly speaking, we are not too sure if job actually existed or if he's just a cautionary tale. "faith and works" is a very christian approach, but we would probably deduce it based on other stuff; if he...

a point i have made a number of times - it is not a capital punishment under jewish law and, in any case, as i have also pointed out, it was virtually impossible to get a conviction in a capital case unless the entire court was bent - the sanhedrin procedure described in the gospels certainly...

brilliant! now i'm a squid-worshipper as well! and there was me going we-ahabta eth-HaShem Elokekha bekhol lebabbekha wu-bekhol nafshekha wu-bekhol me'odhekha and all this time i should have been going ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! all i can say is that i think that the...

oh... reaaaaaalllly. so i'm not a true jew? where do you get off? i know it is usually ben masada that i end up telling to read the code of conduct, but in this case it's you. you do not get to tell jews who is a jew. we will do that for ourselves, thank you very much indeed. ok, this is...

clearly not. i am jewish myself and intend to remain so. i don't know how you get that from what i have said; all i have asked is that you be civil and less accusatory. again, clearly not, but you often seem to be labouring under the impression that this is an appropriate place for you to...

start it up then - "politics and society" is the place to put it. my take on this is that you're thinking along the wrong axes of differentiation. if there is a "realist" vs "neo-con" worldview divide (i have more than once been accused of being a "neo-con", which i find laughably absurd) it is...

so, by this light, pretty much any statement made by any christian anywhere is unacceptable to you. i am bound to ask, where do you actually get off? if all you are here to do on an interfaith dialogue site is bitch at christians, what the arse is the point? go read the code of conduct, dude, i...

well, from what i can conclude from this review: Review-a-Day - Jesus in the Talmud by Peter Schafer, reviewed by The New Republic Online - Powell's Books it looks (at least without having read the book) as if schafer is a quite different case from the likes of walt, mearsheimer and...

well, ben and i don't see eye to eye on a lot of these interpretation particularly of Na"Kh, as he doesn't seem give much credibility to normative rabbinic discourse unless it suits him. time in TaNa"Kh is extremely malleable; weeks can refer to cycles of varying length, outdated calendars or...

reform jews do not accept the binding nature of halakhah or the personal obligation model, so it's a bit more complicated than that. yes, but you don't accept anyone's interpretation other than your own of what constitutes "walking hand-in-hand"; this itself is a fairly reform (indeed karaite)...

the above generalisation is generally true of me. *tucks into bagel* b'shalom bananabrain

sheesh. i for one would really like to see you sue three religions for "using zarathustrian expressions without permission"! permission from whom? are religious expressions protected under copyright? can i sue the pope for "stealing" the sabbath from the jews? i agree that most americans...

another day, another ben masada picking-a-fight-with-christians thread. *sigh*. in fact, i believe mary was supposed to be a benjaminite, not a judahite - politically this would have solved quite a few problems by unifying the royal succession and removing opposition relating to surviving...

music is the best. for me, it is an unbeatable path to spiritual enlightenment. whether you're talking about intensity or precision or expansion or delicacy, without music life would have no flavour. i don't care whether you're talking about mozart, motorhead or manilow; music, when combined...

yes, i hit send and then shut down for Shabbat. no worries. good, because the sort of people who use it nowadays are not the sort of people i consider it worthwhile to speak to. they also tend to see walt and mearsheimer as providing evidence for their sad and pathetic paranoid conspiracies...

if you weren't so keen to ignore the rabbinic tradition i'd say you were shilling for one of the kiruv organisations like aish. anyway, hurrah for us! aren't we great? b'shalom bananabrain

i am afraid that this rather relies on you being able to base the assumptions in your numbers of matters of faith. i am familiar with all the arguments about, for example, conditions for life in the universe, but whatever you put into the assumptions affects the outcome and there is no way...

not really - if you're talking military, then both sides are looking for any advantage they can get. but this isn't just about warfare. israel's national ambitions will not be realised until there is peace; a holding pattern is not peace. moreover, israel's national ambitions do not include...