Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: iconoclast
Are there many 144 hour creationists at your synagogue?

For the star-spangled, saffron-gillionth time on this forum, I'm not Jewish. I'm a Noachide. But the shul I go to twice a year most certainly seems to believe that the world was created in six days, as the Torah states in many places (and not just in the opening chapter). Last Simchat Torah, I was a guest at a home where at dinner that night one of the men spoke about how 'Adam HaRi'shon prayed for rain to fall, and how this rain enabled the vegetation (which was under the soil) to actually sprout forth. As a matter of fact, the next morning the men in the shul were discussing how Adam was created last (on the Sixth Day) in part to teach him humility.

Do you know anything about Orthodox Judaism at all? Other than "moderdox," that is, or people who make a big deal of accepting evolution while insisting that after the "sixth day" arrived everything in the Torah happened literally just as it was written. Is it perhaps that type of silly and inconsistent thinking that you are invoking?

Have you ever read RaSH"I's commentary? Have you ever read the commentaries made available in the ArtScroll TaNa"KH series? Have you ever looked at the Stone TaNa"KH or the earlier CHuMa"SH edition? Have you ever even read the commentary in a standard Orthodox prayerbook? Are you aware that invoking a mythical event in prayer would be a birkat shav? (vain blessing)? Have you ever read Rabbis 'Avigdor Miller, Menachem Schneerson, 'Avi Shafran, Mosheh Feinstein, Shelomoh Rotenberg, or any of the great Sages and Nesi'im of recent generations? Have you?

Do you even know what an "hour" is?

445 posted on 05/28/2004 8:08:14 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (I'm a Noachide . . . if **everyone** doesn't hate me, I'm not doing my job! :-))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 248 | View Replies ]


To: Zionist Conspirator
I certainly don't hate you pal, but I'm pretty sure if Noachides hadn't existed you would been compelled to invent them. ;o)
468 posted on 05/28/2004 9:20:03 AM PDT by iconoclast
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 445 | View Replies ]

To: Zionist Conspirator

Well it's your right to believe in a lot of Jewish mythicism that sprang up alongside the Bible itself. Your story about the First Man watering plants that were all kept dry until he could do so wouldn't fit with a day-age theory of progressive creation (note this is NOT the same as "evolution") but neither does such a story come from the Bible or from documented history. IMHO, it comes from the imaginations of the rabbis.


544 posted on 05/29/2004 10:08:07 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 445 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson