Re: Disturbing Trend: Why European women are turning to Islam

Hieron wrote:
> Terry Cross wrote:
>
> > cindys wrote:
> >> "Terry Cross" <tcross77@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> news:1135754418.908491.310060@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> > Jewish girls are taught that they are unclean with every menstrual
> >> > cycle and they defile everything they touch - Moses tells them so.
> >> -------
> >> What a total lie (among all the others).
> >
> > So you are saying that modern Jewish girls do NOT follow the Law of
> > Moses?
> >
> > Leviticus 15 (King James Version)
>
> [snip]
>
> Perhaps the Hebrew term has nothing to do with cleanness, but with a
> particular spiritual state during which certain rules apply.
>
>
> > And if you read more of Leviticus, you see that "unclean" is the same
> > word used for pigs and lepers and creeping animals and gonorrhoic
> > urethral discharge.
>
> Do you think the term means "dirty"? It rather refers to a state in which
> one most be separated from another. Here I paste Cindy's answer - since you
> didn't bother asking what she was taught, I did:
>
> When a woman menstruates, she is called a "niddah." There is no direct
> translation for this word, but it does not mean "unclean" and is not related
> to hygiene. It is a spiritual state. The woman is forbidden from engaging in
> sexual relations with her husband. They are additionally discouraged from
> touching at all because of the possibility that touching will lead to sexual
> relations. There is no "defilement, "impurity," "uncleaness" etc involved.
> And the prohibition only involves the relationship between husband and wife.
> When menstruation is finished, the woman checks for an additional 7 days to
> verify that there is no blood. She then immerses in the mikvah and is
> permitted to her husband again. The proof that mikvah is not related to
> cleanliness is that the woman must be freshly showered/bathed BEFORE she can
> immerse in the mikvah. The laws of family purity are considered to be a
> beautiful thing within Judaism. The days of niddah are the days when a
> husband and wife relate to each other only on an emotional and intellectual
> level. When, they come together (physically) again, it is like a honeymoon.
> There is nothing ugly, nasty, "unclean," "sinful" "defiling," or degrading
> about the laws of niddah..."
>
> I suppose one thing is what *you* want to believe or disbelieve, and another
> is what they practice.
>
> There is a lot of value in asking the Jews to explain their religion.

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Why do you reject the 10 Jewish authorities I quoted, most of them
Orthodox, in favor of what lay-person Cindy claims with no supporting
evidence?

Why does 1 lay-person trump 10 rabbis in your eyes?

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