"Shake Things Up Every 50 Years" is built into Judaism, actually. Called the "Jubilee Year" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical) …
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oh god, when i was in college i was talking to a friend in the library about the various religions i was studying and i said "i just don't understand why anyone would want to be jewish" and this freshman girl decided to give me a stern dressing down
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i just couldn't understand why anyone would want to be a part of a religious organization that was primarily legalistic and didn't seem to offer much in the way of affirming mythologies or liberation
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rabbinical judaism is legalistic, and a lot of that is very long lingering influence of the deuteronomists, but as a legal code it's so full of holes and so subject (and in need of) contextual interpretation that in practice it's not legalistic, it's theocratic
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the lack of a liberation theology is a much more interesting question and I ought to read up on that. The Exodus myth partially fills the role there though, so it's not completely absent as such. It's not personal liberation though, it's actually proto-nationalism.
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from what i'm told Reconstructionist Judaism and Posadism both feature a prominent role for The Space Comrades, maybe they should get together
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ooh monotheism you say but if you study your Torah hard enough you learn that the singular of Elohim is Eloah (between that and the kahuna, what the fuck *is* it with the Hawaiians?), and Adonai is also plural case — singular would be Adoni
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yes, it was certainly retconned by late rabbinical revisionists to transform it into a monotheistic transcendentalist religion whereas it's true origins were a particularly vicious and exclusionary variety of the common polytheistic sky tyrant cult
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that was the shit i loved, picking apart the obvious editing scars in a document that requires as an article of faith the belief that it has never been edited the marks left by the nasty breakup with Asherah are pretty tragic too
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Are there any Really Good English translations of the Torah that treat it more uh "objectively"/authentically?
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honestly i've never looked and would love to know the answer to this question
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