I notice that instead of responding to my post like you claimed you would, you've decided to go the pure annoying route. So, how are relations between Orthodox Jews, Reformed, Kariates and so forth?
Instead of stirring the pot, you should listen to Jewbacca and quite being as obnoxious as possible.
So where would you like to go back to? The Rabbis? The stories of demons in the bathroom?
By the way, ever hear the expression “2 Jews, 3 opinions?” Jewbacca has another rabbi/counsel and that’s his way. (those Jews from Kashyyyk...)
I want to point out that you groan about haughtiness and other issues with the approach of my posts, yet you wrote in your first reply “stupid oral traditions.” Very considerate/gentlemanly of you... (Of course I think the same thing about your religion and its dogmas or, “YOPIOS”)
Hey, can we both be happy Cantor lost? Holy Jewish soul (in my opinion) but crappy RINO.
Anyway, relations between orthodox and reform are fine. Thanks for asking! The not-yet-religious do, Heaven help us, tend to marry out and forfeit their inheritance, but more and more are becoming religious, thank G-d. They don’t tend to argue doctrine with their coreligionists like Catholic and Protestant do.
I thought of something— Imagine if I told a Buddhist that there is a new Buddah in town and they are all wrong. I had a few witnesses of the new Buddah’s miracles (pardon me, but quite few witnesses, relative to the Jews’ claims...in your ‘OT’ of millions of witnesses...and witnesses to G-d Himself at that, not just a, pardon me again, run-of-the-mill resurrection— Elishah and the child??) AND I make similar (to the Christians’ to the Jews) claims that their old Buddah is superseded... Presto!.....Christianity in the eyes of a Jew. Enough... Christians, Karites, Saducees, and the rest have their own religion which has nothing at all to do with Judaism and our rabbinic tradition. Go ask your Karite friends (or peruse their websites again) how they observe the life-and-death laws of the Sabbath that G-d commands in Torah. But of course they have their YOPIOS too, not acknowledging that G-d gave an Oral Torah too with every detail we need to keep His laws.
In closing (as if :) ) and returning briefly to your insulting questions of the Talmud and Zohar— much is analogy or metaphor, some concepts (like demonology, impurity) we hold to be bygone powers that have mostly faded— but which will come back as applicable to the 3rd Holy Temple, may it be rebuilt speedily. Do you reject any spiritual power in our created world that is granted authority to operate in G-d’s world— to tempt or to entice a person away from G-d? Don’t you battle against a Satan? I know you’re not at the Catholic level, but you are in the world’s minority if in your YOPIOS and scripture-only viewpoint there is no spiritual force in our world. The stories you mock are the Jewish take on the subject. (I know your answer, don’t bother— lop it all together with Catholic saint-worship... it’s not in scripture.)
Or should we go back to the Hebrew Torah and ask, in your opinion and translations, does Lev 3:17 mean we should not eat fat or not eat milk? The word is exactly the same in Hebrew. What did G-d mean in His written Bible? If you say “fat” like all of the Christian commentary, then you are relying on the Oral interpretation given to the Jews.
Hey, maybe Cantor can spend more time studying the Bible now?