Question for orthodox jews?
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Contra Richard, I think there ARE times in Jewish Law when one must choose to break one law to uphold a greater one.  In the case of a law from the Torah versus a rabbinic law, the law from the Torah is always upheld.  In other cases, a rabbi needs to be consulted.\n\nBut in the case you have delineated, I can't see that either of the laws needs to be broken.  However, I do not know much about male "needs" and I guess it is possible that a man can be so driven with desire that he feels he must have some release.  In that case, MY intuition says it would be better for him to pleasure himself than to commit adultery or fornication - because to do the latter means he is involving someone else in his transgression.  But I am not a Rabbi, and I do not know all the nuances of the Laws, so that is why I say to consult a rabbi.
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I personally know a Rabbi, and I think he looks very well groomed and orthodox in the way he dresses. You have to remember that orthodox Jews are a very committed people to their religion and beliefs. The way a Rabbi dresses and looks, beard etc, is a statement that they are who they are.
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I would say that while obviously Reform Judaism is nothing like any form of Christianity. But, if you are making comparisons then I suppose Reform Judaism is to Liberal Protestant Christianity as Orthodox Judaism is to Greek Orthodox Christianity.  The liberal end of the spectrum does less liturgy and will have less emphasis on how to live out the morals of the faith.  At the same time, the liberal end of the spectrum is going to be more accepting of those who practice immoral behavior.  If you want to find gay Jews you are much more likely to find them in the Reform rather than amoung the Orthodox.  Generally it is the same in Christianity.  You are much more likely to find gay Christians in a liberal denomination like the Metropolitian Community Church than you are in a fundamentalist church.\n\nBut at the same time I want to avoid saying anything too harsh about them either.  The Reform movement is at least still making a point of contact with Judaism, even though it isn't the fully observant Judaism that Orthodoxy requires.  \n\nSince I study with Chabad, my views on this are tempered by their approach.  They can't be too harsh in their approach with the Reform because that is one of the groups they draw new members from.  If they were too harsh, they would turn people off to Orthodoxy rather than drawing them in.  Their message is "you can do better -- there are more mitzvot that you can perform".\n\nKeep studying Torah, and keep working on improving how you live your life.  Reach upwards, HaShem meets us where we are and calls us to keep going further.
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Nothing bad came out of Judaism. The question should be "What bad things have gone into Judaism?"
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i know that there is the orthodox an the conservative jews. i dont know the difference, but 2 me jews r cool. but my friends seem 2 think that jews r soft. i guess its da way they dress.
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I think plenty. But a few come to mind off the top of my head:\n\n1. The same issue that Jewish people have always faced, rejecting or accepting Jesus as the Jewish Messiah.\n\n2. There is a current trend in Judaism at large where most Jews are becoming more and more "reformed." Most Jews in Israel are not even believers in God. Most Jews in America care little about God, they just like to keep up appearances by going to Schul (Temple, Synagogue) on Passover and Yom Kippur. As a nation the Jews are facing the same issue that's been plaguing them since biblical times, the fact they they largely reject and ignore Yahweh (God). \n\n3. The Jews in Israel are also facing the ever severe problem of Arab and Islamic fundamentalists wanting to destroy them from the face of the earth!\n\n4. Most Jewish people are also facing the ever increasing problem that affects almost everyone at one point in time, they question who they are individually. "what does it mean to be a Jew," "what makes someone a Jew," etc.\n\nHope this helps.
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See:::\n\nhttp://JewFaq.org\nhttp://WhatJewsBelieve.org\n\nfor starters.
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Okay... let me start off by stating that "Jews" and "Hebrews" are one and the same. They are an ancient people, and "being Hebrew" is both a religion and an ethnic group. Those who have Jewish descent but are not "religious" are called "secular jews". A person can also be of the Jewish religion without being born a Hebrew.\n\nAs to whether or not they "believe" in Jesus, it is a complicated matter. Almost all people of the Jewish faith believe that there once was a rabbi named Jesus. The true issue is whether or not he was the Son of God.\n\nThe Old Testament does not make mention of Jesus by name, because by the very nature of the Bible, the Old Testament is mainly about the times before Jesus; it is about the history of the Jewish religion. There are many passages in the prophetic books of the old Testament that makes mention of a "Messiah" or "Savior" of the Jewish people. The coming of the Messiah was to mark the victory of the Jewish people, bring them back to the former glorious days of King Solomon. This Messiah was said to be a King of Kings, and would lead the Hebrew people out of the bondage of their enemies.\n\nEnter Jesus. His time was during the Roman Empire, when Rome had overtaken the Middle East, and has captured Jerusalem. The Hebrew people were under the rule of a pagan king, and there was a small but determined group called "Zealots", that prayed for the coming of the Messiah to lead them out of their captivity. When Jesus comes on the scene, He preforms miracles, and tries to teach the people how to live better lives. He tells people to love their neighbors and to treat others as they'd like to be treated. Jesus proved His divinty time and time again, yet still even His disciples were unable to fully believe.\nThe Jewish leaders of the time could accept that a poor rabbi from a nondescript part of their nation was the foretold Messiah. Why, he was not a great king... how could He ever lead them to victory over the Romans? And so, they begin to plot to have Him killed... He is disrupting their people... causing a revolt, some say. It is not He that is bringing the glory and attention to Himself, it is the people, witnessing to others about the miracles He had done for them. Blind men could see, dead were raised to live again, and food was made from near nothingness. It was all too much. He had to go.\n\nFor those who do not understand the Jewish religion, it is difficult to fully appreciate the sacrifice that Christ made on the cross. It might all seem like a gory, twisted sotry. But in the Hebrew faith, there was no atonement for sin except through the spilling of blood. If you stole something, you must sacrifice something for forgiveness. Typically, it was the purest, whitest lamb or animal one possessed. By this shedding of blood, one was forgiven their transgression. However, the sins of the people had become too great for lambs to pardon, and a larger sacrifice was needed. That sacrifical lamb, that pure innocent life, was the Son of God, Jesus Christ.\n\nTo this day, most Hebrew people are still waiting for the coming of their Messiah. It is in this point that Christianity branches off from Judism. Christians believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, the Messiah. Jewish people do not accept His divinity. That is the critical difference.
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wow.do you have something against jewish?????????   the joke was funny... question:how are ya gonna choose the best answer????lol
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All the apostles were Jewish too – are you suggesting that in order to be a priest that a person must also be Jewish?\n\nWhat about middle eastern – all the Apostles were middle Eastern.\n\nFrom non-broken homes...\n\nHow much further should I go?\n\nHow many rules do you want to impose?  How about you live by Gospel instead of law?
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Its called the "Sanhedrin project".  They need two things to get started, ordination and seventy of the best Rabbi's.  They only claim to have the first, and they are working on the second. See their website, it talks all about this.  The've got a few high caliber Rabbis but the rest are place holders.
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here you go\n\n\nstuartfederow@hotmail.com\n\nit sometimes takes him a few days to reply though.\n\nby the way I admit i might not know as much as the Rabbi but if you have any other questions feel free to email me as well.
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Meshuggah has been done.\nWhat about the Kosher Kids?  Kosher Killers?  Yeshivah Yah-Yah?  the Dreidel Spinners?  Bar Mitzvah Boys?  Bar Mitzvah Badasses?  Rabbi Rangers?  Rabbinical Radicals?  Rabbis Rock?  The Schmoikels?  Oy Vey!
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I live in the United States and the Eastern Orthodox churches are few and far between. Besides, I did a little research on their beliefs and I'm not to impressed. They are very big into icons and I know that that can lead to other things. Other then that i respect all Eastern orthodox Christians. In fact, I hope to one day actually go to one of their services and see what it's like.
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Orthodox-1. Believing in, living according to, or conforming with established or generally accepted opinions, especially in religion or morals; conventional.\n\n2. Belonging or relating to the Orthodox Church.\n\n3. Belonging or relating to the branch of Judaism which keeps to strict traditional interpretations of doctrine and scripture.\n\nHope this helps
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I am Jewish, Christians come to synagogue all the time for Bar Mitzvahs and parties. It is never a problem though. They provide keepas or head coverings for you at the synagogue. You don't have to sing or say prayers, just be respectful and when the leader says to go to a page, just go to that page and pretend. Sometimes there is even English translation of the left that you can read while everyone else is reading the Hebrew.
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I am a Jew and hear people say all sorts of things.\n\nYou will only continue very many diff things, since from the Jews came all other western and even some eastern religions like Bhuddism.\n\nSo lets start with the first Jew. Here it is from the Talmud.\n\nHis name was Abraham, he had an Idea that the world was created by a greater something, he could not name it, so he called it The Name, untill this day Jews call GD 'HaShem', which means 'The Name'.\n\nThe decendants of Abraham formed as 12 tribes. We where made slaves in Egypt for 200 years and as proffesionals and forced labrors built up Egypt. Its a long story and you can read it in the Bible, but eventualy we came to Mount Sinai and received the Torah.\n\nThe Torah was translated into Greek and from there into all other languages, it has been called the Old Testment.\n\nThen came a young Jewish kid who was rejected by his rabbi, who was one of the top ones for the reason of immodesty, so basicly he was a college reject. He didnt mean to, but he created a whole new religion. All he claimed where a few wil things but over 2000 years people distorted it with their imagination to look like it looks now, its called Christianity. Jesus wouldnt know what it was if he where alive today, and from Heaven he looks down and both laughs and cries at it.\n\nMuslims came later, they call GD as Allah which is one of the names GD is called in the Torah. Bhuddism is based on Kabbalah which a feild in Torah Academia.\n\nSo cut it short, we beleive in the Torah. We beleive it is life. The Torah gives 613 commandmants, of all sorts. 248 of them posative are 'Though Shalt...'365 of them are negative commands meaning 'Thou Shalt Not do/be/go/put/etc...'. We believe the Torah speaks to us as the Word of God and is the manual for life. There are 248 bones standing up the human body and 365 muscles, sinews and ligaments, holding them together, moving them etc.\n\nUs Jews consider our Torah not just copywrite, but any non-jew ith motives of breaching the copywrite is forbidden to read it and liable to a death penalty. Christianity and a bloody 2000 years of history in the west was from breaching that copywrite, distorting it, adding stuff, taking out, by mad people.\n\n\nProverbs 3:13-20\n\n13 Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, 14 for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. 15 She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. 16 Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. 17 Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace. 18 She is a tree of life to those who embrace her; those who lay hold of her will be blessed. 19 By wisdom the Lord laid the earth's foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place; 20 by his knowledge the deeps were divided, and the clouds let drop the dew. \n\nWe are like a real family, though all over the place and allways on the move when persecuted, each Jew knows 90% of worldwide Jewish family names, we help each other out.