Re: Abbas: Pullout a 'great moment'

"Dan Kimmel" <daniel.kimmel@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > > Joel Shurkin wrote:
> > > > > You are welcome. Judaism is full of remnants of its pagan
past
> > and to
> > > > > imbue a building of stone with supernatural attributes is a
good
> > > > > example. The Talmud was written at a time when that kind of
> > belief was
> > > > > quite common and most of the world was pagan. I don't feel
any
> > > > > obligation to accept those beliefs.
> > > >
> > > > Define "pagan". And what "supernatural" attributes? Holiness
in
> > > > Judaism is a legal category. (Standard quote of "There are
more
> > things
> > > > in heaven and earth," yada yada...)
> > >
> > > Try this: we would all agree that the Torah is holy, right? We
kiss
> > it when
> > > it is brought out or when we get an aliyah. Should it be
dropped we
> > would
> > > be required to fast.
> > >
> > > Now, given the choice between burying a Torah and leave it for
> > enemies to
> > > desecrate, what would you do?
> > >
> >
> > But that same holy Torah explicitly forbids us to destroy
synagogues
> > in Israel.
>
> First, Gaza is not Israel.
>
> Second, where in the *Torah* does it "explicitly" say this? The
only
> citation I've seen is to the Shulhan Arukh.
>

Well, Micha posted it earlier in this thread but look at Deut 12:1-4
which we read the Shabbat before last.
"These are the laws which you shall observe in the land... you shall
destroy all the places where the goyim worshipped their gods ... .You
shall not do the same to the Lord your God."

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Henry Goodman
henry dot goodman at virgin dot net


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