"The problem is that the rabbis did not intend it as a metaphor. This becomes clear from the ensuing discussion of the effects of demons and the ways of making them visible. The evil these demons work is not metaphysical or catastrophic; it is trivial and bothersome, making them seem more like naughty sprites than devils. When your knees become tired, when your clothes wear out from rubbing, when you feel squeezed in the crowd at a public lecture—this is all, according to Rava, the work of demons. And there are magical ways of making demons show themselves. All you have to do is find a black female cat who is the firstborn daughter of a firstborn mother, burn her placenta to ashes, grind the ashes, and put some of them in your eye, and you will be able to see the demons. Be sure, however, to place the remainder of the ashes in a sealed iron tube, lest the demons steal it from you."
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/109188/the-talmuds-many-demons
"The Rabbis taught: 'On coming from a privy a man should not have sexual intercourse till he has waited long enough to walk half a mil,
— [2] because the demon of the privy is with him for that time; if he does, his children will be epileptic.'[3]
Stroke and epilepsy were closely related in ancient medicine. This law is not included in the Mishneh Torah.[4] The lavatory demon takes the form of a goat in the Talmud (Shabbat 67a, Berachot 62a).[5]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0ulak
"To make the flesh close he should bring dust from the shadow of a privy [outdoor toilet] and knead it with honey and eat. This is effective. For catarrh10 he should take about the size of a pistachio of gum-ammoniac and about the size of a nut of sweet galbanum and a spoonful of white honey and a Mahuzan natla11 of clear12 wine and boil them up together; when the gum-ammoniac boils, it is all boiled enough. If he cannot manage this, let him take a revi'ith of milk of a white goat"
http://www.come-and-hear.com/gittin/gittin_69.html
As for there being no Temple, any parent will punish his or her children for misbehaving.
By killing 1.1 million Jews, selling at least 100 thousand into slavery, spreading the Jews across the entire globe into perpetual persecution and harassment, and handing you over into the dominion of superstitious rabbis who think epilepsy can be caught by having sex too soon after a pee?
You have funny ideas about what a parent does!
his particular Parent has explicitly promised just that kind of forgiveness for His people
Only if you repent of your sins and believe in Christ. The Old Testament period is over and done with.
Torah is eternal.
Man made religion isn’t. Man made religion is an empty existence, always seeking justification when it already exists right there in front of you as it has for thousands of years.
You get wordy when you await your second coming. When was that supposed to be again? According to your messiah’s biographers?