(February 21, 2019 at 1:53 pm)Yonadav Wrote: For me, it was a passionate love affair with Jewish law. If you've never been there, you just don't know what it's like-- studying Jewish law, talking Jewsih law, living Jewish law, interacting with others who are living Jewish law. It's so passionate and addictive and you just love the others who are having the same experience.
A Talmudic scholar, here. Great stuff.
I have an inking of just how fulfilling such study can be.
May I ask if, first, if you are Jewish? A practising or cultural jew? Orthodox or Reform?
Perhaps we can have some views by some one who actually knows the Torah;
Eg: Brief explanation of the term 'mitzvot', including its source according to Jewish tradition
Prophecy about the Messiah , as apposed to christians claims. In my experience, Christians rarely seem to bother asking WHY Jews don't except Jesus as the Messiah.
Does the idea of an eternal hell appear in the Torah?
An odd question perhaps; I read/ heard that "revenge is not Jewish". Correct in principle? .
A lot o questions , I know, and a couple are a bit intrusive.I ask from curiosity and because I want an informed opinion.
I have problems accepting the views of evangelical Christians as being informed on the Torah or New Testament . Imo, the opinions I come across here tend to be simplistic and dogmatic.
I was brought up Catholic. We were not encouraged to read the Bible (so naturally, I did ,at age 16) From what I've seen over a lifetime, Catholic faith is not based on personal knowledge of scripture, but on church teaching about scripture.
