tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post6466255766473137385..comments2023-10-06T11:13:20.836-04:00Comments on Izgad: Shabbos at the Oxford ChabadIzgadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-59089525620525652202009-07-14T02:00:24.397-04:002009-07-14T02:00:24.397-04:00Be aware that I am on good terms with your Rabbi B...Be aware that I am on good terms with your Rabbi Brakcman's Brother and sister and law (full disclosure)<br /><br />BZ, we carry on a textual tradition that is very old. However, the strict conception of ikkar is considerably late compared to early legal and mystacl texts that were included in the cannon, early legal and mystical texts that were not included in the cannon but that we do knowShanaMaidelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-18855532858472339742009-07-09T05:57:55.030-04:002009-07-09T05:57:55.030-04:00This would be an argument in favor of tolerating R...This would be an argument in favor of tolerating Reform and Conservative Jews. Truth is I do not have much respect for Reform and Conservative laymen either. To believe in something requires that you can clearly articulate what you believe in. For example, we cannot say that infants believe in anything. So all those people who spout words without being able to explain what those words mean is notIzgadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-72071730388417283012009-07-08T15:38:47.452-04:002009-07-08T15:38:47.452-04:00I think there is a very important difference betwe...I think there is a very important difference between how Orthodox Jews exclude Reform and Conservative (and other types of) Jews; and the type of exclusion you are proposing. Most Reform and Conservative Jews have arrived at their decision to practice there form of "Judaism" as the result of an intellectual exercise. Basically, they feel that halacha either does not make sense or is no Miss S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10887805742474651903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-1665360057875772902009-07-08T09:12:12.387-04:002009-07-08T09:12:12.387-04:00To be clear this is not a blanket condemnation of ...To be clear this is not a blanket condemnation of Kabbalah. One can accept many of the propositions of Kabbalah and still be a believing Jew. In theory one can even believe in some form of Sephirot as long as one took the pain to keep it within an acceptable theological framework. Of course one can do the same thing with the Trinity. I would therefore argue that anyone who talks about Sephirot Izgadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-47454426632073390892009-07-07T09:27:51.279-04:002009-07-07T09:27:51.279-04:00problematic to whom?
it has become accepted into ...problematic to whom?<br /><br />it has become accepted into the warp and woof of Judaism<br /><br />yosef karo<br />rama<br />vilna gaon<br />even yaakov emden who has issues with elements in the zohar accepts 99.9% of its teachings<br /><br />Over the last 500 years for sure it has become accepted as the theology of the Jewish peopleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-83038828533272665552009-07-07T09:11:10.958-04:002009-07-07T09:11:10.958-04:00Granted there are versions of the Trinity that cou...Granted there are versions of the Trinity that could be acceptable. I would have no objection to a Christian who told me that he believed that God was One but that it is sometimes useful, when talking about human perspectives on God, to talk about human beings seeing God as if he were Three. If the Christian threw in that he believed that Jesus was God simply in the sense that he served to make Izgadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-38255604444519146112009-07-06T20:01:34.565-04:002009-07-06T20:01:34.565-04:00There is an important issue one can redefine idol ...There is an important issue one can redefine idol worship so it is no longer idol worship. In other words not all Christianity is the worship of 3 distinct entities. There were forms of Christianity that redefined the trinity so it would be monotheistic. One could redefine anything so it changes meaning. <br /><br />From a Jewish perspective it would then be false but not idol worship. Just like Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-15238687611061146802009-07-06T16:49:17.132-04:002009-07-06T16:49:17.132-04:00Christianity came after Judaism... no wonder Chris...Christianity came after Judaism... no wonder Christianity is going steal some things and distort it a bit from Judaism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com