Posted on 05/06/2015 7:49:57 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator
Ping.
What’s the question?
I assume the question has to do with being “born that way”.
This was from 1986?
Thanks for posting that. It is an extremely lucid and compelling explanation.
That's what the letter says.
I received these two links in an e-mail from a friend who wanted me to post them.
A truly wise and great man. I have come to love Chabad through the years.
I’m thinking it has to do with the SSA (Social Security Administration) becoming a neurological disorder/neuropathy! Maybe the question is about the increasing entitlement mentality of country to the point that it is becoming a real problem?
SSA = Same Sex Attraction. The rabbi makes the point that being “born that way” (debatable anyway) is no excuse. Scripture is crystal clear on the fact that it is unnatural and sinful. And that if people who have an overwhelming compulsion to steal, lie, or murder aren’t given an excuse to indulge why should we twist our moral sensibility out of shape to condone sodomy?
“And that if people who have an overwhelming compulsion to steal, lie, or murder aren’t given an excuse to indulge why should we twist our moral sensibility out of shape to condone sodomy?”
Those in our storytelling industries - government, religion, media, and academia - are doing their best to twist our moral sensibilities out of shape because they lie, steal, murder via the government.
Now the answer makes sense from the Rebbe. Thanks!
Who teaches that Jesus Christ was the magician fraud son of a prostitute and is now burning in Hell.
I couldn't find anything about this individual having rejected the Talmud as being authoritative so he is by definition both anti-Christ and anti-Christian.
Is that what passes for being "wise and great" these days ?
Stunningly beautiful letter, well done.
I could not find anything in your writings to indicate you have renounced antisemitism either ...
Why would a Rabbi have anything to say about Jesus( or about Joseph Smith or L. Ron Hubbard?) Either something falls under Torah or it does not.
A truly wise and great man.
Who teaches that Jesus Christ was the magician fraud son of a prostitute and is now burning in Hell.
Oh my . . . right where traditionalist Catholics put Martin Luther. As Lloyd Nolan used to say, "Ouch!"
Why should an Orthodox rabbi have a higher opinion of J*sus than Catholics have of Luther? After all, chrstianity is to Judaism as Protestantism is to Catholicism. In fact, your own argument is one against the immemorial Oral Sinaitic Tradition. You doubtless believe in "sola scriptura" for Judaism.
I couldn't find anything about this individual having rejected the Talmud as being authoritative so he is by definition both anti-Christ and anti-Christian.
Are you going to renounce the church fathers or the Summa because it offends a newer religion (Protestantism)? And by the way--the Talmud is a multivolume work that takes an entire lifetime to study. It is the Oral Torah frozen into a fixed form at a certain time in history. Yes, it is anti-chrstianity just as the church fathers and Summa are anti-Protestant. But the thousands and thousands and thousands of pages do not focus on chrstianity (nor does it give instructions for destroying "western civilization" by making dirty movies). The people who scream about "the Talmud unmasked" are out-and-out anti-Semites. It appears, Rashie, that when you left Lutheranism a little of Luther came with you.
Is that what passes for being "wise and great" these days?
Is screaming about the "chr*st-hating Talmud" and "anti-chr*st Jews" really what passes for "conservatism" on Free Republic these days? Unlike many Catholics, the Rebbe believed that Genesis was actual history.
Kindly remember this when some "Prot" attacks one of your leading lights.
Does the Talmud teach a belief in the existence of the burning-forever kind of Roman Hell? Granted, I haven’t gotten far with the Oral side, but I haven’t seen that, yet.
Thank you for the ping.
The words of the Rebbe are inspiring and thought provoking.
My only thoughts on the posts after this- is that there are no ‘winners’ in religious debates. Having done my share of argumentation here, I have wasted a good deal of bandwith in the process. Often, the insults fly after many posts out of great frustration. After a while I just avoided these conflicts between FReepers as we conservatives have many other clear and present dangers to worry about.
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The Jewish concept of punishment is as I have been taught a kind of 'purgatory' where the soul undergoes a painful cleansing process. Eventually, the soul returns to its maker afterwards.
The idea of a physical punishment of 'burning' is more of an anthropomorphized interpretation of a spiritual process. -Which is supposedly more painful than burning.
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