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  1. John D. Brey

    Acclimating to the Akedah Lamb and Limb.

    After searching everywhere possible and not being able to find the books, I did a search of university libraries and found that one near me had the volumes. So I thought I'd check them out, accidentally lose them (and pay the library for the loss) so I could retain them for my own library. True...
  2. John D. Brey

    Acclimating to the Akedah Lamb and Limb.

    Dude, I intentionally skipped the rest of the three-volume work. I only selected the particular parts of the three-volumes that would quickly and effectively help me make my point without weighing down the argument with too much verbosity. I can't include the whole context of what I quoted; I...
  3. John D. Brey

    Acclimating to the Akedah Lamb and Limb.

    The other sections weren't directly dealing with the argument I'm making. As the author of the argument I'm making, I get to chose where a quotation begins and ends. You would have to show us where something I left out of the quotation I gave, somehow changes the meaning of the quotation in a...
  4. John D. Brey

    Acclimating to the Akedah Lamb and Limb.

    We need CNN's fact-checkers since the bold red text seems to be found in message #12. Secondarily, we could use a a good mind-reader or two. Is there a mind-reader in the house to confirm that I "intentionally" left out the bold red text? Charlatan that I am, I actually didn't leave out the bold...
  5. John D. Brey

    Acclimating to the Akedah Lamb and Limb.

    Whatever the Aramaic is for "yesod." Yesod יסד is the word used in kabbalah to speak of the "divine phallus." I could access the Aramaic of Matt's Zohar here if I really wanted to find the Aramaic word. John
  6. John D. Brey

    Acclimating to the Akedah Lamb and Limb.

    "Ask and ye shall receive.":) Shney Luchot Habrit, Torah Shebikhtav, Bo, Torah Ohr, 8. John
  7. John D. Brey

    Acclimating to the Akedah Lamb and Limb.

    Actually, I probably can. If I remember right, Professor Matt posted the Aramaic on the internet and it can be accessed. John
  8. John D. Brey

    Acclimating to the Akedah Lamb and Limb.

    What do you suppose we use to access the Zohar? Are you more versed in Aramaic than Professor Matt and his team of scholars? You keep implying the need for a specificity and exactitude that doesn't exist, a care in exegesis that would labor itself down, encumber itself seeking perfection, so...
  9. John D. Brey

    Acclimating to the Akedah Lamb and Limb.

    Shney Luchot Habrit, is almost impossible to purchase. No one anywhere on the Internet has it. But Sefaria has it. You can access the quotation posted in this thread at Sefaria. I nearly stole a three-volume copy from the university library. But that's a whole other story.:) Btw, on Sefaria you...
  10. John D. Brey

    Acclimating to the Akedah Lamb and Limb.

    Rabbi Yehudah said, “If so, why blood? For we have learned: White and red and one blended of colors.” 73 He replied, “There were two bloods: one of circumcision and one of the Paschal Lamb. Of circumcision, Compassion; of the Paschal Lamb, Judgment.74 The Zohar, Pritzker Edition, vol. IV, p.161...
  11. John D. Brey

    Acclimating to the Akedah Lamb and Limb.

    Bingo. That's why this thread is scratching its head; why this thread is important? A sacrifice is a "judgment" on the lamb or limb that's sacrificed (since the organ is cut, bled, killed), while it's "compassion" on the one doing the offering (since they reap the reward of the offering)...
  12. John D. Brey

    Redeeming the Akedah.

    Here's an English translation of Rabbi Hirsch made by Daniel Haberman which millions of Jews have read since it's the translation given in a popular rendition of The Hirsch Chumash. מילה is not a completion of, or supplement to, physical birth, but the beginning of a higher "octave." It marks...
  13. John D. Brey

    Redeeming the Akedah.

    Communication, particularly through the written word, is both a science and an art form. As many experts on literary theory point out, once a statement has left the mouth or the pen of the author, it no longer belongs to him exclusively since no one can engage his statement without interpreting...
  14. John D. Brey

    The Garden of Eden

    . . . The first statement seems at odds with the second? And the capital A could be read to imply, Freudian slip or no, self-deification. :confused: John
  15. John D. Brey

    Redeeming the Akedah.

    I doubt that I'm merely dreaming that I sit before a magnificent, amazing, calculating (MAC) machine linking me to instantaneous knowledge of anything I might dream to know, and simultaneously linking me with thousands of interlocutors from around the globe. My fingers are joyfully, in...
  16. John D. Brey

    Redeeming the Akedah.

    This is the truth of atheism I admire and think needs to be incorporated to some extent into theism proper. John
  17. John D. Brey

    Redeeming the Akedah.

    I like it! I would merely add that in my own understanding of things, ha adam was originally divinely created femininity, but for the fact that since there was no fleshly male (phallic-flesh) yet, that divine femininity was the sole manifestation of invisible masculinity, i.e., the true...
  18. John D. Brey

    Redeeming the Akedah.

    The first couple's "shame" in relationship to "nakedness" עריה (a shameful-nakedness somewhat ameliorated by circumcision) is uncovered to an extent by the Hebrew letters involved, since the word for the cause of the shame in nakedness, i.e., the "orlah" (uncircumcision), that is "ערלה", is the...
  19. John D. Brey

    Redeeming the Akedah.

    As people of deep faith and of great literary and aesthetic sensibility, the kabbalists also found themselves impressed by, and perhaps even attracted to, certain aspects of the Christian story and the religious lives of the large and powerful monastic communities . . . Much that is to be found...
  20. John D. Brey

    The Garden of Eden

    Obviously there's a subtle but important distinction between your Gnosticism and my Christianity. They have much in common. But there are important distinctions. John
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