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@ But you didn't answer! Ok.. This comes up in HS all the time... But I've got to run and will write later.
about 2 hours ago
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@ I care.. How are you? But there are 2 main answers to your question.
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11/30/09 Riding the 'L':
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@ Yes, although it's been probably 10 yrs. But Mendelssohn was born 1729
about 6 hours ago
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RT @: That's Judaism, interesting and practical :) @
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@ But he found power in rituals, in that they captured ideas in a way that was too loose for ideology, too concrete for forgetting
about 7 hours ago
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@ M thought Judaism should be divided between religion (which all religions shared) and revealed legislation
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@ I'll try to summarize a point made by Mendelssohn on this later
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@ That's not a claim that religions have it right. It's a claim about political and psychological structures.
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@ encourage further development of 'secular morality' and to maintain the dignitiy of the human as infinite. Secular morality can't
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@ I agree that it requires secular morality (as I said to someone else). But religion contains the power and ritual to...
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@ The difference (which is decisive, but irrelevant on the point you made here) is what counts as "data." For rabbis, the text=data
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@ That is pretty much how Karl Popper (and maybe Quine?) might describe the scientific process
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RT @: No, but Rabbis are human; they see things they don't understand, or don't agree with, so "tradition" is born...
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.@ @ Or itself divine and beyond human understanding except through esoteric hermeneutics
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.@ @ There seems to have been a split in rabbinic theology as to whether the Torah was divinely created for humans or....
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I would say multifaceted rather than cryptic RT @: @ the rabbis assumed texts were cryptic... @
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@ I think this overly simplifies the hermeneutical process, especially of legal systems with emphases on precedent
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@ Yes and no. Depends on meaning of "need."
about 13 hours ago
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RT @: @ What I'm getting as, and I am guessing you've guessed this// Yes, after your very first question, lol.
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- Name drnelk
- Location New Brunswick, NJ
- Web http://www.orble....
- Bio Freethinking / free ranging PhD Ethics, Religions, etc., Teacher: Philosophy, Bible Judaics. Techie and VERY PROUD FATHER
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