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  1. LAGoff

    When asked: "What is His name?" what shall i say?

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    The answer "I dont know"

    On the big questions, 'nature' abhors a vacuum. We 'have' to have an 'answer' for every big question because they are too important to just leave them hanging. On most of these questions we will have come to a conclusion-- even if it's unconsciously. For example, on free will versus...
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    When asked: "What is His name?" what shall i say?

    God's response, 'I will be' and 'I will be what I will be' seem to be commentaries on His name, 'YKVK'-- which seems to be in one name a conjugation of the verb 'to be' in past, present, and future. His name is signalling the most powerful thing that can be signaled. In one word, it sums up the...
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    When asked: "What is His name?" what shall i say?

    The Exodus.
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    When asked: "What is His name?" what shall i say?

    No one knew Who they were dealing with. There were just conversations and promises and personal deliverances, but not the massive, incredible manifestation of God's power that will be taking place soon.
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    Genesis 1:2

    Per Christine Hayes' YouTube lecture series on the Hebrew Scriptures and John H. Walton ('ANE Thought and the OT'), I'd mention the ANE (Ancient Near Eastern) way of thinking from which this comes out of. In light of these teachers, I see this 'ruach' ('spirit'/'wind') as the 'spirit' of order...
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    Judaism Dir - Wondering about Moshiach

    "Did you read the commentary from last weeks parsha?" What is 'the commentary' that you are referring to?
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    Judaism Dir - Wondering about Moshiach

    The only thing that 'lifts/raises itself up' to me in this parsha is the use of the Hebrew word 'soo' at the beginning.
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    Judaism Dir - Wondering about Moshiach

    You mean parsha Pinchas? No, I didn't. What's the little clue? What do you mean by casting a wide net? Casting a wide net to catch what?
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    Judaism Dir - Wondering about Moshiach

    "The focus of the discussion was: Are those who seek Moshiach, the individual, barking up the wrong tree?" I would 'fish' about the 'servant songs' of Isaiah (ch. 40-55). There we have a concentration on the nation of Israel as the protagonist, not an individual. I would like to know how...
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    Can a religion be said to be 'true' if only 1 out of a million can do it?

    I'm a Jew. That word ('salvation') is not a 'biggie' in the DAILY life of a Jew who is mainly concerned with performing the next mitsva. Sure, we hope to be 'saved' from our enemies and our exile, but we have our mitsvas to be concerned with. On a humorous note, it seems Christians -- and...
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    If you could be a non-Jew for a day...

    Kind of the same desire as wanting to be a woman for a day. I'd want to know what it's like not having a Jewish soul, since Chabad has implanted in my mind the thought that there's an essential soul difference between Yids and goys. On the other hand, I'd be terrified with the possibility that...
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    What do the Sacrifices represent, teach, and mean to YOU?

    Thanks. That's the kind of answer I was looking for. I can see 'hospitality' / 'honoring a guest' (I assume that's Hashem) achieved in many ways as we make the world (including our own bodies and minds) an inviting place for Hashem to dwell (Ex 25:8). Why can't a Dwelling Place (Mishkan) mean a...
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    What do the Sacrifices represent, teach, and mean to YOU?

    I guess I'll [go first and] tell how I personally approach animal sacrifice in the Tora to illustrate what I was looking for in my OP. Since there are so many chapters dedicated to the sacrifices, I am uneasy with Maimonides' view that they are [only?] there to wean us from them. That's a lot...
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    What do the Sacrifices represent, teach, and mean to YOU?

    From God clothing Adam and Eve with animal skins, to Cain and Abel, to Noah, to Abraham, to Sinai, to the Temple sacrifices (that include flour and wine), what did the animal and vegetable sacrifices represent, teach, and mean to YOU-- from the individual elements of it to the overall picture...
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    What's the Theology Behind Human Sacrifice?

    I watched a mangled version of Midsommar on Youtube, and the thing came up in my mind was the beauty of the place and the people in juxtaposition to the human sacrifice that went on. This got me to thinking about the reason for human sacrifice there (in the movie) and historically. How and why...
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    A certain shiur style that I doesn't speak to me

    I just looked up homiletics here: Homiletic Literature and found something that seems to speak to my 'sheyala'. "...Preachers and listeners, however, knew and regarded the literal meaning of the ancient texts. But listeners did not come to the derashah for an exegesis of the Bible in order to...
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    A certain shiur style that I doesn't speak to me

    I'm just spit balling with the Rochel weeping, date, moon thing. They just represent things/symbols that he might have used. In reality, they were just spit up from my subconscious. I quickly perused some lectures on the parshas on Chabad.org and -- just like any Reform or Conservative Temple...
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