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To: onedoug

So, if you don't mind me asking, why do you go?


15 posted on 04/20/2006 6:43:14 PM PDT by MC Miker G
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To: MC Miker G
Because I so register that concept of One God and Torah.

I love the univeralism expressd in Deuteronomy 4:19 and Malachi 1:11.

I love the sense of reason, which poses no conflict between a universe designed by God, and that allowded to develop through natural process. Even evolution, though yet unproved.

I love that God with all my strength and with all my mind and with all my heart. Yet that doesn't mean that I don't argue with Him, sometimes seemingly constantly.

I went to a conservative shul for awhile, but found them too politically liberal for me for the most part. Now I attend in a more orthodox setting, though do admit to some twinge at being separated from women. Though as Dennis Prager says, "If it comes to my concentrating on God or a woman's legs, a woman's legs will win out nearly every time."

So I think I know that answer, though I might argue with God some more....

My mom really did this for me. I used to church-hop with her throughout Christendom all my young life. I even sang in choirs therein - sometimes for pay.

Though I've often wondered why she didn't take me to a synagogue, where thankfully I finally convinced myself to go.

I suspect that might have been the end, and yet always the beginning of her search too.

22 posted on 04/20/2006 8:15:05 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: MC Miker G

It is becoming increasingly common to find non-Jews in attendance at orthodox synagogues all over.

Most think of themselves as 'Noahides'.

Orthodox services are public prayers and Torah reading. Music, singing (other than tunes used for prayers) and sermons are not central features.

Since everyone walks to shul and stays somewhere nearby, it's very easy to make friends by just tagging along if you're bold enough.

Most times there are classes on Sabbath afternoons suitable for those with little background.

It can be very much an enchanting experience.


24 posted on 04/20/2006 8:34:01 PM PDT by hlmencken3 (Originalist on the the 'general welfare' clause? No? NOT an originalist!)
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