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  Hello!
Posted by: Searcher - 03-05-2025, 08:02 PM - Forum: Introductions - Replies (2)

I'm not exactly new, but due to privacy reasons (as I was granted permission to create a new name) I will simply be referred to as Searcher.

I guess the name is self-explanatory. This past year has been kind of something and I feel like I'm (re?)kindling a spiritual journey. I'm a gentile, but for years I had wondered about Judaism as for one I had grown up as a Catholic but wondered around for a little bit and couldn't find all the explanations for the questions I've had since I was young. One thing led to another and I found myself at first looking at the Messianic sect and then learned more about the Jewish faith.

I've read the Five Books of Moses years ago and might do so again to refresh my memory, along with using other resources to help along. I've considered on becoming a Noahide as that would probably be the furthest I can go at this point in my life.

I hope to meet others in a similar situation as well as fellow Jews who can help me on this path.

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Thumbs Up 2024 last rement of Jews in Sudan
Posted by: COmentator - 02-26-2025, 02:16 PM - Forum: Israel - No Replies

Sanhedrin Just Called All Jews To Move to Israel - Back to Jerusalem

see letter of 30 December 2024 who have declared their willingness to go up to Israel Cool Heart Blush

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  Do Jews recognize each other?
Posted by: BudapestSkzio - 02-25-2025, 08:25 PM - Forum: Judaism General - Replies (18)

If they do, then instantly? Or by having conversation etc... Thanks you

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  Hymen Polano's 'Talmud'
Posted by: Hoopoe - 02-25-2025, 01:33 PM - Forum: Judaism General - Replies (3)

Hello, I've been reading about the Talmud and this book pops up repeatedly online with hardly any description. I don't think it has anything to do with the Talmud but what is it? I've read that it's a collection of unrelated Rabbinical stories but I don't know on what authority that rests.

Thanks.

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  Exodus 14
Posted by: gib65 - 02-22-2025, 02:44 AM - Forum: Judaism General - No Replies

Exodus 14 is probably one of the most iconic chapters from the Hebrew bible. It features the famous story of the parting of the Red Sea. It reads pretty straight forwardly, without a lot of metaphors or cryptic words from God--just relaying the series of events that took place--and so this post will be short and sweet. Again, this is part of a series of posts I have been contributing to this forum for a while now--dissecting Exodus chapter by chapter, asking questions, giving commentary, offering interpretations--all from the point of view of a non-Jew curious about what Exodus has to say and how to unearth its hidden pearls of wisdom. My source is here, same as always.

Exodus 14:15 Wrote:The Lord said to Moses, Why do you cry out to Me? Speak to the children of Israel and let them travel.

This is a strange way to address Moses. Moses was speaking to the children of Israel, wasn't he?

Exodus 14:18 Wrote:And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I will be glorified through Pharaoh, through his chariots, and through his horsemen

I always found this to be an interesting phrase--you shall know that I am the Lord--as it's repeated many times in the Old Testament. What is this concern with knowing that He is the Lord? Like there is some doubt and God must rectify that doubt. Tell me what you think of this theory: in these times when Moses lived, polytheism and the belief in many spirits that could perform supernatural feats were commonplace. Therefore, it must have been commonplace to wonder, in light of a miracle or supernatural event that one observed or heard of, which god or spirit was responsible for it. And I know that a common theme throughout Exodus (and I believe elsewhere in the Torah) is that God wants to guide his people (the Israelites) towards the almighty God (Himself) and away from lesser spirits or demons. Therefore, He must have been concerned with convincing the people that the one who was speaking to them or who performed the supernatural act was indeed the Lord Himself. Apparently, then, God understood that such an act as parting the Red Sea, letting the Israelites to cross, and collapsing the sea upon the Egyptians would be more than sufficient to convince Pharaoh and the remaining Egyptians (and for what it's worth, the Israelites themselves) that this was indeed the work of the almighty God, a God more powerful than any of the Egyptian Gods. <-- Is this a fair interpretation of the phrase "[you] shall know that I am the Lord"?

Exodus 14:19 Wrote:Then the angel of God, who had been going in front of the Israelite camp, moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved away from in front of them and stood behind them.

This pillar of cloud was described in Exodus 13:21 as...

Exodus 13:21 Wrote:And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to cause it to lead them on the way and at night in a pillar of fire to give them light, [they thus could] travel day and night.

In other words, Exodus 13 describes the pillar of cloud as God Himself, but Exodus 14 implies it was the angel of God. However, one way to interpret Exodus 14:19 is to say that there is an angel of God, always was, who, like the cloud, walked ahead of the Israelites, but was not one with the cloud, and that everywhere the angel went, the cloud followed. The angel wasn't mentioned in Exodus 13 probably because he (she?) wasn't visible to the Israelites. <-- Is there any credence to this interpretation?

Exodus 14:23 Wrote:The Egyptians pursued and came after them all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen, into the midst of the sea.

So the pillar of fire isn't blocking them anymore?

Exodus 14:24 Wrote:It came about in the morning watch that the Lord looked down over the Egyptian camp through a pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw the Egyptian camp into confusion.

So the pillar of fire is back?

Exodus 14:29 Wrote:But the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the water was to them like a wall from their right and from their left.

This answers a question I've long since asked: how is it that the Israelites crossed the Red Sea in just one night. It would take several days if not weeks, I would think. Exodus 14:29 seems to suggest they didn't. It seems to suggest that God brought the sea crashing down on the Egyptians only in that region of the sea where the Egyptians were. But the Israelites were still surrounded by the sea walls on their left and their right. So they hadn't crossed the sea yet even though the sea collapsed upon the Egyptians in a retrograde region. (I guess the 1956 adaptation of this story--The Ten Commandments--is a little unfaithful to scripture--it has the Israelites clambering to the other edge of the sea trying to escape not only the Egyptians but the inevitable collapse of the entire sea.)

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  Bibas family hostages
Posted by: COmentator - 02-21-2025, 01:18 PM - Forum: Israel - Replies (1)

Grief and the Bibas family - The Jewish Standard
Dear Yarden Bibas - Our hearts are broken; we cry together with you

O Israel take Note....Hamas; Fatah; PLO Hezbullah are children of Easu and Haman....expel them from Israel..do not let these vipers stay within Jewish Land!
After I read their story I remembered another memorial of a Jewish Child killed by the PLO....The surving family members wrote may the L-D avenge her blood....
As for myself....I began to compose a memorial message...but suddenly found I just could not write it

10 Critical Lessons From Haman to Counter Hamas - Chabad.org
The Blogs: The Trump Plan for Gaza | Ron Diller | The Times of Israel
https://ctc.westpoint.edu/wp-content/upl...lation.pdf

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  Lessons from the Torah
Posted by: COmentator - 02-17-2025, 03:34 PM - Forum: Judaism General - No Replies

I came across these lessons from the Torah today
On cats
https://www.thetorah.com/article/the-cur...se-of-cats

On dogs
https://torah.org/torah-portion/ravfrand-5765-bo/


On the nations of the world and Israel
https://www.thetorah.com/article/the-son...20variants:

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_c....htm#Could

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  L'Chaim Video
Posted by: searchinmyroots - 02-13-2025, 11:48 PM - Forum: Judaism General - Replies (14)

Not sure if the link will work but it's a cute video -

https://www.facebook.com/reel/871345305162079/

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  Jewish faith
Posted by: dman23 - 02-13-2025, 02:07 PM - Forum: Judaism General - Replies (2)

I was watching the Jewish TV channel and there was an older gentleman who professed to be a jew and he said he does not believe a greater power was watching down on him. The jewish commentator agreed with him. I thought Jews believe in GoD, creator of the universe.

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  The Quran says that the land of Israel belongs to the Jews
Posted by: JudaicChristian - 02-05-2025, 04:35 PM - Forum: World Religion - Replies (11)

The Quran says that the land of Israel belongs to the Judaic peoples.

When the Quran speaks of Israel's inheritance, it simply refers to the land which God gave them.

Quran 5:21.
“O my people, enter the Holy Land which God has assigned for you, and do not turn back, lest you return as losers.”

Quran 5:21. O my people! Go into the holy land which Allah hath ordained for you.

Traditional commentators of the Quran, from the eighth and ninth century onward, have uniformly interpreted the Quran to say explicitly, that Israel has been given by God to the Jewish people as a perpetual covenant. There is no Islamic counterclaim to the Land of Israel.

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