http://samsonblinded.org/blog/jewish-religious-model.htm A Machiavellian Perspective on the Middle East Conflict Sat, 19 May 2012 18:30:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://samsonblinded.org/blog/jewish-religious-model.htm/comment-page-1#comment-6280 Danny the Admin Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:21:30 +0000 http://samsonblinded.org/blog/archives/286#comment-6280 Shalom Shalom Yehoshua. You're very welcome to write me danny [at] samsonblinded [dot] org"Kuzari" stands on Obadiah's shelf. I never knew, btw, that Halevi was a rabbi. Are you sure? He seems very un-rabbinical to me.I do believe that Torah is entirely true. Obadiah allows that theoretically some of the minor commandments could be time-specific rather than eternal. Many of our friends are secular. For whatever reason, we share the goal of Israel as a secure Jewish state: with Judea, without the Muslims. Shalom Shalom Yehoshua. You’re very welcome to write me danny [at] samsonblinded [dot] org”Kuzari” stands on Obadiah’s shelf. I never knew, btw, that Halevi was a rabbi. Are you sure? He seems very un-rabbinical to me.I do believe that Torah is entirely true. Obadiah allows that theoretically some of the minor commandments could be time-specific rather than eternal. Many of our friends are secular. For whatever reason, we share the goal of Israel as a secure Jewish state: with Judea, without the Muslims.

]]> http://samsonblinded.org/blog/jewish-religious-model.htm/comment-page-1#comment-6268 Yehoshua Friedman Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:25:44 +0000 http://samsonblinded.org/blog/archives/286#comment-6268 First of all, Shabak Shalom to all the avid readers from the security establishment. That completed, I highly recommend that you read and study carefully the Kuzari of Rabbi Yehuda Halevi. It turns out that the basis of belief in the Torah as accepted by millions of Israelites in the desert is either totally true or a totally conspiratorial Big Lie. Since the outcome of it over the generations does not really allow for the second alternative, the one that is left is the first. Therefore we are dealing with divine directives and have to take them somewhat more seriously. Please send me an e-mail and perhaps we can meet some time. First of all, Shabak Shalom to all the avid readers from the security establishment. That completed, I highly recommend that you read and study carefully the Kuzari of Rabbi Yehuda Halevi. It turns out that the basis of belief in the Torah as accepted by millions of Israelites in the desert is either totally true or a totally conspiratorial Big Lie. Since the outcome of it over the generations does not really allow for the second alternative, the one that is left is the first. Therefore we are dealing with divine directives and have to take them somewhat more seriously. Please send me an e-mail and perhaps we can meet some time.

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